Bonus: Pandemic Preschool and Prenatal Checkups
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In part nine of their “Momming During Coronavirus” bonus series, Shanna and Laura check in on how they’re doing during the coronavirus pandemic. Shanna talks about her decision to homeschool her kids for preschool, and Laura reports on what her prenatal visits to her OBGYN are like at this time. They also include a listener story and a listener question about making the decision to try to conceive during the pandemic. They also share several BFPs that have arisen amidst the chaos of the last week. It’s been six months since the coronavirus pandemic has shut down schools, workplaces and all non-essential businesses in Los Angeles, where Shanna and Laura live.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. On this special bonus episode, we are doing another coronavirus quarantine check-in. And we have a super interesting listener question that we want your input on. And then we're going to close with our BFPs. Let's get to it. |
| 0:19.9 | Hi, Shauna. Hi. It's nice to it. Hi, Shana. |
| 0:21.6 | Hi. |
| 0:22.6 | It's nice to hear your voice, if not to see you in person. |
| 0:27.3 | It's been about 10 months since we've seen each other. I don't know. |
| 0:32.2 | And not all of that was because of coronavirus. |
| 0:34.8 | I know. I know. A good chunk of it was just, you know, who knows? |
| 0:39.0 | Well, it's more like nine months. |
| 0:40.4 | Nine months. |
| 0:41.1 | But yeah, yeah, we haven't seen each other because first you guys were sick with just normal |
| 0:46.8 | non-pandemic illnesses and then the pandemic hit. |
| 0:51.5 | Right, right, right. |
| 0:52.5 | I forgot about that, which, you know, still I am a little bit like, did we maybe have a touch |
| 0:58.8 | of coronavirus? |
| 0:59.6 | Because, like, the new research out is that it was probably definitely in L.A. |
| 1:04.6 | as far back as December. |
| 1:06.8 | So, I am still on team. |
| 1:10.3 | Shana and C.C. had coronavirus. Like, I know. I just, what, I just don't know what else it could be. And it was in the area. And there were no tests at the time. So. And I did get tested for the antibodies. But, you know, that was a couple months after I had been sick and now we're also learning that |
| 1:27.9 | if you get antibodies they could fade away and they don't last forever right they could maybe only |
| 1:33.0 | last a month or two so it's it's all a mystery to me and those antibody tests are like very |
| 1:38.6 | unreliable and especially when you got them like what was it was it, April or May, something like that. |
| 1:44.9 | Something like that, yeah. |
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