Ep. 134: Unsolicited Advice, Parent Preference and More
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In the segment “Checkin’ the Inbox,” Laura and Shanna answer listener questions about everything from dealing with unsolicited advice from family members to whether Laura will be going for a VBAC or planned C-section. Also, Laura talks about expressing and collecting colostrum in advance of giving birth, and Shanna reports on her daughter’s two-year sleep regression. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s toddler is 2 years old, and Laura’s toddler is 23 months old. Laura is 33 weeks pregnant.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. On this week's episode, we have our weekly |
| 0:07.1 | check-ins. We have our special segment, check in the inbox, where we answer listener questions |
| 0:12.1 | on everything from breastfeeding to parent preference to Vbacks and more. Then we wrap it up |
| 0:18.9 | with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. Let's get to it. |
| 0:23.5 | Hi, welcome to episode 134. Hey, Laura. Hey, Shauna. How are you guys doing and how old is everyone over there? |
| 0:31.0 | Well, I'm 38 years old. Okay, that's what we needed to know. Yeah, so, okay, so let's start with my toddler. |
| 0:39.8 | He's 23 months and three weeks. |
| 0:44.6 | So close. |
| 0:45.9 | So close. |
| 0:46.5 | But I have to say that we're going to get a fourth week out of this 23rd month. |
| 0:50.9 | So just out of the luck of the calendar, this is one of those months where I get to have a |
| 0:55.9 | 23 month old for an extra week. Oh, lucky, lucky. Yeah, yeah. But he's so close to being too, |
| 1:02.5 | my sweet little guy. Yeah, but things are good over here. I just have a couple really cute things |
| 1:08.6 | that he's said this week that I want to talk about. So we're getting ready |
| 1:14.2 | to invite this new baby into the world. I'm 33 weeks pregnant, and I'm going to talk about that |
| 1:19.9 | in a little bit. So we've been obviously talking about the baby a lot and trying to get him |
| 1:25.1 | prepared to be a big brother and all that stuff. |
| 1:32.7 | And it's really, I think, starting to hit him in a way. |
| 1:42.5 | And like one thing this week that happened was I think he finally, like truly registered that he felt the baby kick for the first time. |
| 2:00.9 | We were having a little cuddle and I was like, oh, do you want to feel baby brother kicking? So I like put his hand on my tummy. And usually what happens is like, I'll ask him, you want to feel baby brother kicking? He'll say, yeah, and I'll put his little hand on my belly, but then he takes it off immediately. But this time I kind of like held it long enough. And I could tell he was getting a little impatient. But then the baby had a huge kick. |
| 2:03.4 | And he looked at me with wide eyes. |
| 2:07.2 | And so he definitely like registered it. |
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