Ep. 110: Deciding to Have Another Baby
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s special segment “Big Topic,” Shanna and Laura dive into the topic that family members and strangers alike just LOVE to ask us about: “Are you going to have another baby?” Also, Laura talks about her toddler’s expanding vocabulary and his newfound reptilian buddies, and Shanna comes clean about her quarantine exhaustion and marvels at her toddler’s blossoming confidence. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s toddler is 19 months old, and Laura’s toddler is 18 months old.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.3 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.9 | We have our special segment, big topic, where we talk to each other about the question, |
| 0:12.9 | should we have another child? |
| 0:15.0 | And we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:18.5 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:20.6 | Hey, everyone, welcome to the show. This is episode 110. |
| 0:24.9 | Hi, Shana. Hi. How are you doing this week? And how old is that adorable toddler of yours? |
| 0:31.5 | She is 19 months old. And girl, I'm frazzled. I am so frazzled. Really? Just, I know we're not really |
| 0:43.3 | talking too much in the regular episodes about the pandemic and the quarantine and everything. |
| 0:48.9 | But the truth still is, like, I'm spending every single day of my life with my one year old and my four |
| 0:56.0 | year old at home all day while working, you know, not going anywhere. And it's just, it's, it's, |
| 1:03.0 | it's fun. It's nice to be around them more. But sometimes I'm just like just exhausted to |
| 1:10.6 | the max. I feel you. Well, I feel like when just exhausted to the max. |
| 1:11.2 | I feel you. |
| 1:12.0 | Well, I feel like when we started doing the bonus episodes for the quarantine and like keeping coronavirus out of our main episodes, I don't think we realized how long it was going to last. |
| 1:24.1 | I know. |
| 1:25.3 | And I was very hopeful to wrap up in two weeks. I was not. I mean, I didn't think |
| 1:31.5 | it would happen. I was hopeful it would, but I didn't think it would. But I think the truth is that I've |
| 1:37.4 | noticed also we have just sort of started creeping in with this discussion of the quarantine, |
| 1:42.3 | because there's no way to avoid it. Like it's just, it's part of our lives now. We can't do stuff like go to the zoo or, |
| 1:50.9 | you know, drop our kids off with the grandparents or any of that stuff, you know. |
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