Ep. 1: Introductions (8 and 12 Weeks Pregnant)
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Best friends Shanna and Laura got pregnant just a few weeks apart, and they are here to check in on their pregnancies, week by week and share everything they learn and experience along the way! This week, the Laura reports on getting her ultrasound upgraded by a few days, and Shanna discusses the results of her NIPT test. In the special segment "What I Googled This Week," they reveal the questions the asked the internet recently about pregnancy, diving into the topics of thigh chafing, nipple pain and more. Finally, they wrap things up by sharing their highs or lows (big fat positives or big fat negatives) of the week. Laura is 8 weeks pregnant, and Shanna is 12 weeks pregnant.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Week 8 of pregnancy
-Week 12 of pregnancy
-Prenatal testing
-NIPT
-Ultrasounds
-Pregnancy chafing
-Pregnancy nipple pain
-Nausea
-Diclegis
-Pet dogs
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast contains explicit language. If you've got kids around, headphones might be a good idea. |
| 0:07.4 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. I'm Shauna. And I'm Laura. And we're friends |
| 0:12.7 | and writing partners who happen to be pregnant at the exact same time. So we started a podcast about it. |
| 0:18.6 | This week, we've got our weekly check-ins and we've got a special segment. What I Googled this week, where you get to find out some intimate details of Shauna's life. And then we have our weekly hits and misses, our BFPs and BFNs. Just a heads up, we were still figuring out all the technical details when we recorded these segments, so you may notice that in the audio but we promise it only gets better especially once we |
| 0:38.6 | hit our stride in episode five let's get to it laura let's do it this is episode one um so since this is |
| 0:47.0 | episode one we thought it would probably be a good idea to start with some intros shana yes. Yes. Do you want to tell us a little bit about |
| 0:57.1 | yourself? My name is Shana. I am 39 years old. I'm about to turn 40. And I am pregnant. I'm |
| 1:06.8 | what they call, what is it, a geriatric? Geriatric. A geriatric mother. |
| 1:13.1 | I do have one child already. |
| 1:15.3 | She's two, about two and a half years old. |
| 1:17.5 | So this is my second pregnancy. |
| 1:19.8 | And I live in Los Angeles. |
| 1:22.4 | And I'm a writer. |
| 1:24.3 | What about you, Laura? |
| 1:25.4 | I am also a geriatric pregnancy. I think I just barely qualify. I just turned 36. Is it 35? I think it's 35. So I guess I'm a year into my geriatric |
| 1:37.0 | pregnant window. And I am 36, just turned 36. I live in Los Angeles. I'm a writer. I'm a web developer. I'm also a semi-professional knitter. |
| 1:49.1 | Or I guess I'm a professional knitter, just sometimes, part-time professional knitter. |
| 1:53.0 | Mm-hmm. Yeah, fiber artist, if you want to be pretentious about things. |
| 1:57.8 | Fancy. |
| 1:58.6 | And we met in graduate school. Yes, we've known each other for 14, 15 years now. |
| 2:05.2 | It's going on 15. I'm not even sure. Yeah. It was, yeah, we met in 2004. Okay. Now it's 2018. |
| 2:10.9 | Wow. Wow. Yeah. We've known each other a long time. Yeah. You were my first friend in grad school. |
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