Ep. 113: Allowing Your Toddler to Struggle
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In the new segment “Loose Ends,” Shanna and Laura provide updates on past topics from the podcast, including what’s going on with Laura’s son’s modeling agent, how Shanna solved her toddler’s 5:00 a.m. wake-ups, whether the moms have resolved their parenting conundrums from past “It Takes a Village” segments and more. Also, Shanna talks about how difficult it can be to watch her 19-month-old learn new skills, and Laura discusses the pregnancy exhaustion and anxiety that sent her spiraling at bedtime. 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. Laura is 12 weeks pregnant.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shana and Laura. |
| 0:06.0 | This week we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:08.1 | We have a brand new special segment called Loose Ends, where we bring you some updates from topics from previous episodes. |
| 0:15.0 | And we close with our BFPs and BFNs for the week. |
| 0:17.8 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:20.2 | Hey, everyone, welcome to the show. This is episode 113. Hi, Shawna. Hey. How are you doing? |
| 0:28.3 | How old is your kiddo? And tell me what you've been up to this week. So, Cece is 19 weeks. No, C C's 19 months and three weeks. And it has been pretty good this week. It's fun because Cici and L are really starting to get along really well and play together by themselves more. It's like the moment I've been waiting for since the second I got pregnant with my second child. |
| 0:57.4 | It's like, when will they entertain each other? |
| 1:00.7 | Right. |
| 1:02.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.3 | And it's been a, you know, I don't want to say long, hard battle, but it's been trickier than I thought. |
| 1:10.4 | Having two kids, I've mentioned before, Elle's, like, just overcome with, like, just wants |
| 1:16.9 | to squeeze her and squish her because she's so cute and jealousy and, like, a lot of emotions. |
| 1:22.1 | And so it's been a source of anxiety to see them together because someone's just like, oh, my gosh, |
| 1:26.8 | oh my gosh, baby's going to get squished. And so it's so great. Like the other day, Steve's like, Shana, come here, come here, come here. And I like looked into the living room and the two of them were sitting in front of the toy shelf and just sitting together playing with toys, sharing, giving each other stuff. And like, my jaw dropped. I was just like, |
| 1:44.6 | what? Yay. That's the holy grail, man. Having the kids entertain each other. Like 90% of the |
| 1:52.3 | reason I'm having another one. It's like, maybe I can finally read the news and peace on my phone in the morning. |
| 2:02.2 | I mean, I still like, I'm realistic. |
| 2:04.3 | That's still far away off. |
| 2:05.9 | But that being sad, really trying to do anything with the both of them is still just bananas. |
| 2:13.0 | It really is from, you know, just like setting up the bounce house and just like craziness to, God |
| 2:20.3 | forbid, try to go anywhere with them. We're not really going anywhere. But we did go to the park |
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