Bonus: Socially Distanced Well-Baby Checkups and More Listener Stories
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Laura describes what it’s like to go to a well-baby checkup at the doctor’s office during the coronavirus pandemic, and Shanna gives an update on her COVID-19 antibody test in part six of their “Momming During Coronavirus” bonus series, where they come to you in real time to give an update on how they are dealing with the coronavirus upheaval. They also include more listener stories from around the world about what parenting is like during this pandemic. It’s been six weeks since the coronavirus pandemic has turned Laura and Shanna’s lives upside down, and the spread of COVID-19 has shut down schools, workplaces, parks, beaches and all non-essential businesses in Los Angeles, where Shanna and Laura live. They also share several BFPs that have arisen amidst the chaos of the last week, including Shanna’s secret technique for getting a delivery slot from Whole Foods.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shana and Laura. |
| 0:05.2 | This is a special coronavirus bonus episode where we talk about what goes on with your children's well visits during this time. |
| 0:12.1 | We hear some listener stories and we get a hot tip from Shana about how to get a Whole Foods delivery time slot. |
| 0:17.7 | Very interesting. Let's get to it. |
| 0:23.9 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to another very special bonus episode about momming during the COVID-19 epidemic, pandemic, global pandemic. Is that |
| 0:30.7 | a repetitive to call it a global pandemic? Oh, I think it is. Yes. So it is currently April 21st, and we are doing |
| 0:41.7 | these special bonus episodes to keep you updated in real time about what's going on in our lives |
| 0:47.8 | during this very weird time we're going through in the coronavirus quarantine. So, |
| 0:52.9 | Shauna, how's your global pandemic going? |
| 0:56.3 | Just dandy. Wow. It's, you know, it's been a really hard couple of weeks. I think at first, |
| 1:04.3 | there was some sense of novelty to this situation. I mean, it wasn't, you know, I don't want to |
| 1:10.2 | sugarcoat this or anything, but like it wasn't, you know, I don't want to sugarcoat this or |
| 1:11.0 | anything, but like it was kind of just weird and different and interesting. And now it's just |
| 1:16.1 | getting hard and exhausting. And it's the same thing every day. And this, you know, the last |
| 1:21.1 | couple weeks were particularly hard because CC got sick, not COVID. Just, I'll talk about it in a later episode, but, you know, so it's like |
| 1:30.0 | that on top of everything else. And I'm not going to lie, like I'm having some tough days. |
| 1:37.0 | Like, it's up and down for me. So, like, one day I'll be really happy and, like, I got this, |
| 1:41.5 | you know, and like, plan plan activity is for these children. |
| 2:17.7 | And then the next day I'm like, oh, the kids can watch as much TV as they want. Who cares? Yeah. I don't know. It's hard. This is our sixth week, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it sure is. Yeah, I think it's just, you know, the fact that I've got two kids at home that really, really love attention, which is awesome. And I love to give them attention. But I also need to give attention to my job. And the podcast, still doing the podcast, which I love. And I definitely don't want to stop that or anything. And now we're doing it twice as much because we're doing it two times a week. |
| 2:23.5 | Yeah. Yeah. Just throw some extra work on the pile. Just be like, yeah, why not? You don't have enough going on. Why don't we do more work? Oh my goodness. But all in all, we are hanging in there. |
| 2:32.9 | I'm just really, really grateful for our house and our yard |
| 2:36.7 | and all these crazy kids toys I've accumulated over the last year or so because it's really |
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