Ep. 119: Terrible Twos, Here We Come!
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week, Shanna reports on her toddler’s feisty confidence and tiffs with her sister, and Laura shares tips on how to beat pregnancy reflux. Also, in the segment “Mom Wins!,” Laura tells a tale of her ninja-like instincts that saved her toddler a trip to the ER, and Shanna recounts the time she attempted to chase down the elusive Magical Christmas Truck. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s toddler is 21 months old, and Laura’s toddler is 20 months old. Laura is 18 weeks pregnant.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. This week we have our weekly check-ins. We have our special segment, Mom wins, where we talk about trucks and ninja moves. And we close with our BFPs and BFNs for the week. Let's get to it. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the show. This is episode 119. Hey, Shana. Hey. How are you doing? How old is that toddler of yours? Give us an update. I'm good. Cici's 21 months now. I know. And a while back, I was talking about how we were struggling with early morning wakeups with her. Like, she's waking up at like 5, 5.30. |
| 0:39.9 | And we solved that problem. |
| 0:42.5 | Good. |
| 0:43.4 | Oh. |
| 0:43.7 | Or so we thought. |
| 0:45.7 | By encouraging her to eat more food at dinner, right? |
| 0:48.3 | That's right. |
| 0:48.8 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:49.2 | So that worked for a little while. |
| 0:53.6 | And God, dang it. She's waking up so early again this week. |
| 0:58.3 | I'm just like, no. Like, parenting right now is hard enough as it is. Because it's just like, |
| 1:05.4 | relentless, all day, every day, no help. And now she's waking up so early. So the new thing we're trying is |
| 1:14.8 | adjusting the temperature. So we have a nest. You have a nest too, right? Yeah, nest thermostat. Yeah. |
| 1:20.1 | Yeah, smart thermostat. And you can program it, right? So I'm like, okay, let's program it so that the AC |
| 1:27.4 | doesn't kick on at like four in the morning and make her too cold because maybe she's too cold in the morning, you know, because she doesn't have a sleep sack anymore. |
| 1:35.1 | Oh, that's right. |
| 1:36.3 | Yeah, she doesn't really use her blankets anymore. |
| 1:38.8 | So that's my new strategy. |
| 1:42.0 | We just implemented it the other day. I mean, so far it kind of worked a little bit. |
| 1:47.1 | Like she's up till 5.30. So that's good. Oh, my gosh. So this explains the mysterious group text I got from you and Steve the other day. |
| 1:59.2 | Did I accidentally message on the wrong thread? |
| 2:02.9 | Yeah, this happens a lot. |
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