Bonus: Dads Tell All - Part 2
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Laura and Shanna continue the conversation with their husbands Corey and Steve in this special bonus episode that continues where Episode 100 left off! Steve and Corey answer more listener questions and talk about the challenges of fathering a newborn, parenting books and more. They also spill the dirt on Shanna and Laura’s biggest quirks!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.0 | This is a special bonus episode, the continuation of our Dad's Tell All special segment for our 100th episode. |
| 0:12.8 | So, Shauna, what do you think? |
| 0:13.8 | Should we get back into these questions that we have for our husbands? |
| 0:17.2 | Absolutely. |
| 0:19.3 | All right, guys, here is our next question. |
| 0:21.5 | It's from Leah. |
| 0:22.7 | She's from the UK. |
| 0:23.9 | She says, what did you find was the hardest part of having a newborn to adapt to? |
| 0:29.2 | For example, sleep routine being messed up or not having time for yourself. |
| 0:33.4 | She definitely wants to hear from your point of view so she can help her hubby out if he has any issues because she is 37 weeks pregnant. |
| 0:41.7 | Oh, wow. |
| 0:42.4 | Well, congrats, first of all. |
| 0:43.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.8 | That's so cool. |
| 0:46.0 | It's a super exciting time. |
| 0:48.4 | And as a new dad, the first thing you notice is the lack of sleep, obviously. |
| 0:57.3 | It's so cliche, but isn't really something that you understand until you go through it, that it's just hard to think and hard to |
| 1:04.2 | operate heavy machinery. But when we had L, I had to go back to work at two weeks because I was a contractor and I basically took two weeks unpaid as my paternity leave. |
| 1:20.6 | And going back at two weeks and still very much in the thick of having a newborn and being lack of sleep. |
| 1:27.7 | And my job is to read and write things. |
| 1:31.3 | And I found it incredibly difficult to sit at that desk, sleep deprived in low light, |
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