Ep. 11: Telling Your Child You're Pregnant (18 and 22 Weeks Pregnant)
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Laura reports on her pregnancy nausea becoming associated with one of her favorite pastimes, and Shanna talks about telling her 2.5-year-old daughter that she is going to be a big sister. Also, in the new special segment "Stump the Preggo," Shanna and Laura quiz each other on fascinating pregnancy-related trivia, including the topics of blood volume during pregnancy, which country reports the highest rate of twins and more! Finally, the moms-to-be also reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Laura is 18 weeks pregnant, and Shanna is 22 weeks pregnant.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Week 18 of pregnancy
-Week 22 of pregnancy
-Second trimester
-Pregnancy immune system
-Pregnancy nausea
-Spinning wool
-How to tell your toddler about your pregnancy
-Preparing your child for a second baby
-Pregnancy trivia
-Blood volume increase
-Time spent in labor
-Twins
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.7 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. I'm Shauna. And I'm Laura. |
| 0:10.5 | And we are friends and writing partners who are pregnant at the same time. So we started a podcast about it. |
| 0:15.7 | This week on the show, we've got our weekly check-ins. We've got a new segment, which is called Stump the Prego when we try to test each other on pregnancy trivia. |
| 0:23.8 | And then we have our BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:26.2 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:29.3 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:30.2 | Welcome to episode 11. |
| 0:31.9 | Hello, welcome. |
| 0:33.4 | Hi, let's get started with our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:36.7 | Laura, what's going on with you? How far along are you? |
| 0:39.6 | I am 18 weeks, and I'm not sick anymore. Oh, hallelujah. I was so fucking sick, Sean. |
| 0:51.0 | Wait, wait, wait, do you mean like you had like your cold you were referring to? |
| 0:55.4 | Or are you talking about nausea? |
| 0:56.7 | No, no, no. |
| 0:57.2 | I'm sorry. |
| 0:57.8 | I'm talking about the cold that I was talking about last week. Oh. I thought I had gotten better and then I got worse again. I lost my voice completely. and I, it was like, you know how when you're not pregnant, you can get a cold and it can be over in a couple days and you barely notice it? |
| 1:14.9 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:15.5 | That was not my experience. |
| 1:16.8 | I got a cold and about nine days later, I finally started feeling human again. |
| 1:21.7 | I think it's because all the energy is going to your uterus, right? |
| 1:26.5 | Yeah. |
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