Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura.

On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins.

We have our special segment, Loose Ends, where we give updates about toys, drugs, and broken rules.

And we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs.

Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone.

Welcome to episode 130. Hey, Laura. Hi, Shana. I'm looking forward to

hearing what your check-in is this week. Yes, okay. So I am currently 29 weeks pregnant, and oh, man,

so this week, I have come to a realization that I don't think the baby slash my belly is growing in a linear fashion.

I think it's growing in like growth spurts the way that babies do, you know?

Oh, interesting.

You know how babies, like when they talk about growth spurts, it's like literally a growth spurt.

Like, someone actually did a study where they went in every day to measure a newborn, like their height and their weight.

And they found like they'd be the same height for like a week. And then overnight they'd grow like a half inch.

And then like it's like steps up.

It's not just like, you know, an eighth of an inch every day or whatever.

Right.

So what makes you think this about your fetus?

Well, the fact that my freaking stomach feels like freaking like, freaking like tight as a drum.

Like I've realized this now is that like there's a few weeks,

been a few weeks in my pregnancy so far where like just certain weeks feel like my stomach

has suddenly grown. And this is one of those weeks. Like my skin feels super stretched tight. I feel like really uncomfortable, you know, and it's just like,

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