The couple welcomed their son Ace Wells on Jan. 6, but their road to becoming parents for the second time wasn’t easy.
“We really worked hard for him,” Burruss, 39, who struggled to get pregnant before turning to IVF treatment, tells PEOPLE exclusively. “It was a long process and lots of needles.”

But after bringing Ace home from the hospital, Burruss and Tucker — who are already parents to Riley, 13, and Kaela, 19, their respective daughters from previous relationships — say their newborn son had them feeling like first-time parents.
“It’s like starting all over,” says Burruss. “We were like, ‘Which bottles do we use? What diapers do we buy?’ Simple stuff that you would think I already know and I don’t. It’s silly.”