Ep. 12: Tips for Trying to Conceive (19 and 23 Weeks Pregnant)
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s special segment “Big Topic,” Laura discusses her journey of trying to conceive, including the details of her methodical approach to getting pregnant and the product she believes helped her get pregnant quickly. Also, Shanna discusses announcing her pregnancy on social media, and Laura talks about getting her home ready for her new baby by nesting. The moms-to-be also reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Laura is 19 weeks pregnant, and Shanna is 23 weeks pregnant.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Week 19 of pregnancy
-Week 23 of pregnancy
-Second trimester
-Announcing pregnancy
-Nesting
-Getting home ready for new baby
-Trying to conceive
-Tracking menstrual cycle and ovulation
-Baby names
-Maternity bras
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This show contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.2 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Laura. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm Shana. |
| 0:09.5 | And we are two friends and writing partners who happen to be pregnant at the same time. |
| 0:13.3 | So we decided to start a podcast about it. |
| 0:15.5 | This week on the show, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:18.3 | We have a segment called Big Topic where we dive into Laura's |
| 0:21.7 | journey of trying to conceive, and we do our BFPs and BFNs. Let's get started. |
| 0:30.5 | All right, welcome to the show, everyone. This is episode 12. Hi. Hi, our show is almost out of the first trimester. Oh my gosh. That's right. Yay show. |
| 0:42.6 | And so, Shauna, what is your checking for this week? What week are you at now? I'm week 23. |
| 0:48.9 | And on the whole, it was a pretty uneventful week. Just rolling along in the second trimester, |
| 0:53.8 | generally feeling pretty good one |
| 0:55.3 | thing that did happen is my husband and i decided to post a picture on instagram of me obviously pregnant |
| 1:03.9 | with our daughter and didn't say anything about it oh he did that without your knowledge no no, no, no, no, no. We did it together. |
| 1:11.8 | We posted at the same time. Oh, my gosh. Put any caption. We didn't do anything like... Oh, I was... I was worried |
| 1:18.4 | you were saying he posted it without you knowing. Oh, God. No, he knows better than that. |
| 1:25.9 | No, no, no. We both posted it kind of just as like a sly announcement on social media. |
| 1:32.4 | Because I think we've talked before, like, neither of us are really keen on like the whole, like, |
| 1:37.2 | hey, world, here's our, I don't know, announcement. So it was just kind of like a quiet, like, |
| 1:43.9 | here's a photo. Yes, it was very |
| 1:46.7 | sneaky. I saw it and I was like, oh, I guess Shauna's out about this pregnancy now. Yeah, we came out. |
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