Ep. 116: Plus-Size Pregnancy with Jen McLellan
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Shanna and Laura talk with the founder of Plus Size Birth and host of the Plus Mommy Podcast, Jen McLellan, about the challenges plus-size people face when pregnant, her journey to becoming an advocate for plus-size pregnancy, advice on finding body-positive care providers and more! You can find Jen and all her resources at https://plussizebirth.com. Also, Laura reports on feeling baby kicks much earlier in her second pregnancy than in her first, and Shanna talks about her toddler’s favorite new early 1990s songs to sing. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s toddler is 20 months old, and Laura’s toddler is 19 months old. Laura is 15 weeks pregnant.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.5 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:08.0 | We have a very special interview with Jen McClellan, the founder of Plus Size Birth and host of the Plus Mommy podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | And we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:18.0 | Let's get started. |
| 0:20.3 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to episode 116. Hi, Laura. Hey, Shana. |
| 0:25.3 | How pregnant are you? And how old's your toddler? Just tell us everything. I'm sort of pregnant. |
| 0:30.9 | No, I guess I'm officially 15 weeks pregnant. Wow. And my toddler is 19 months and two weeks. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm going to start with the pregnancy stuff because it's pretty simple. |
| 0:41.4 | So the main thing this week is last week I talked about how I was going to try to wean off the dichlegious, right? |
| 0:48.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.7 | No. |
| 0:51.3 | Still no. |
| 0:52.1 | Still a hard no. |
| 0:53.1 | I went off of it for one day and felt so sick. So, |
| 0:57.8 | right back on it. Just try for a couple more weeks, see what happens. But that was, |
| 1:03.9 | whatever, it's fine. It's fine, we should say, because it's not known to have any negative |
| 1:08.5 | side effects at all to the pregnancy. Like, it's fine to keep taking it. |
| 1:11.9 | It's pregnancy category A, which like nothing is category A. I don't think Tylenol is category A. I'm pretty sure it's not. |
| 1:21.4 | Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Stuff people take all the time is almost everything is category B because category A means |
| 1:28.8 | there's enough like human evidence that it's totally safe and you have a lot of fucking evidence |
| 1:34.8 | to prove that. So yeah, it's a very, very benign medicine. So and it's fine that I'm still taking |
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