Julietta Skoog lives in Seattle, Washington. She is a school psychologist and counselor and the cofounder of Sproutable. She has three kids age 10, 7 and 2. With her professional experience in working with kids, Julietta was confident she was ready to be a mom herself. She admits that it certainly got complicated fast once she found out she was pregnant.

Julietta shares that after having a miscarriage she innately understood how little control she had over so much in motherhood. And although she was grateful to become pregnant again, the pregnancy itself was very difficult. Add to that a very colicky baby and Julietta had a crash course into the reality of parenting. 

She walks us through how she and her husband decided to go for baby number three (two’s not enough, three is too many!). And she dishes on the freedom that having a third child actually gave her. 

Julietta also talks talks about the pros of being pregnant with older kids and how they were fascinated by the whole process and thought their mom was a superhero for growing a human! 

And she even shares a tip from her own playbook where her family participates in weeks family meetings. She gives an overview of how they structure their meetings and how easy it is to get started. 

Julietta references so many good books, blog posts, and videos and I’ve linked them all under episode 19 at www.thisisparentingpodcast.com