Ep. 127: Big Feelings
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s special segment “OMG I’m Freaking Out,” Laura and Shanna have big feelings about inadequate toddler proofing and unusual children’s toys. Also, Shanna talks about being thrust into potty training by her take-charge toddler, who has decided it is go-time, and Laura discusses her toddler’s response to stressful times, which reveals itself in big feelings and big meltdowns. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s toddler is 22 months and 1 week old, and Laura’s toddler is 21 months and 1 week old. Laura is 26 weeks pregnant.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.1 | This week we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:06.9 | We have our special segment. |
| 0:08.3 | OMG, I'm freaking out. |
| 0:10.0 | Where we talk about toddler escape artists and toys that make you go, hmm. |
| 0:14.0 | And we close with our BFPs and BFNs for the week. |
| 0:16.7 | Let's get started. |
| 0:18.8 | Hey, everyone, welcome to the show. |
| 0:20.6 | This is episode 127. |
| 0:23.6 | Shana. Hi. Hi. So 127 episodes in, I think you know what I'm going to ask you. |
| 0:32.3 | Do I want a million dollars? Well, I could, let me check my pockets to see if I have that before I ask you if I can offer that. In the meantime, why don't you tell me how old that toddler of yours is and what's going on with you guys this week? Okay, she's 22 months and four weeks. And I have a couple things to talk about. Very exciting. Yes, the first is she has learned how to whistle, and I put whistle in quotes, |
| 0:58.5 | you know, like the little dog whistle like when you're trying to call a dog or whatever. |
| 1:03.2 | So I do that to the dogs all the time. And so Elle has not learned to whistle, right? The last |
| 1:08.7 | couple of years, she just, she thinks she's whistling. |
| 1:27.7 | It's so cute, right? She goes, whoop, boop, and like just does it with her voice. And so Cici, of course, has caught on to this. Elle's been teaching her. She's like, oh my God, Mom and Daddy. She's whistling. She's whistling. And so here's Cici, you know, she's like, oh, hip, bo, and Coll calling the dogs. But the real kicker is that she has started doing it to get my attention and Steve's |
| 1:33.2 | attention. |
| 1:33.8 | Like, if she's like, ah, knack, knack, knack, and we don't pay attention soon enough, she's like, |
| 1:38.8 | whoop, whop, we're dogs. |
| 1:44.0 | Oh, my God, that is so funny because my guy, so we don't have dogs, right? So we don't have like an audible thing. But you know the thing you do where you like, I don't know if you do this. I was taught that like to get cats to come over to you, you kind of like rustle your fingers together. Oh, no, I can't even imagine what that sounds like. I used to do like, |
| 2:02.3 | you're like, psal, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, I don't know, it's, I don't, let's see if my mic will pick it up, let's see. Oh, so like a really light, not a snap, but a kind of, like, Yeah, you keep your fingers straight and you just rub them back and forth. I don't know. It's always worked really well for my cats. And so it's just something I have, but I do. I just rub my fingers together and they come. And so my guy has started doing that. But I noticed he started doing it to me too. So he wants me to come. And he puts his arm out and just starts doing the little... |
| 2:36.0 | He's like, what is just another sign language? |
| 2:39.0 | You've been teaching me that for months. |
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