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Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)

Ep. 14: Should I Get Vaccinated While Pregnant? (21 and 25 Weeks Pregnant)

Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)

Laura Birek, Shanna Micko

Parenting, Comedy, Kids & Family

4.7531 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Shanna and Laura learn about vaccines during pregnancy during their interview with pharmacist, immunization specialist and fellow pregnant person Keri Hurley-Kim! Also, Laura discusses her unexpected reaction when people tell her “congrats” about her pregnancy, and Shanna reports on feeling and seeing her baby's fetal kicks and punches. The moms-to-be also reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Laura is 21 weeks pregnant, and Shanna is 25 weeks pregnant.


Topics discussed in this episode:

-Week 21 of pregnancy

-Week 25 of pregnancy

-Unexpected thoughts and feelings when pregnant

-Baby kicks

-Fetal pigmentation

-Vaccines when pregnant

-TDAP vaccine during pregnancy

-Flu vaccine during pregnancy

-Maternity clothes

-Prenatal constipation


This episode's full show notes can be found here.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. I'm Laura. I'm Shauna. And we are friends and writing partners who found that we were pregnant at the exact same time. So we decided to start a podcast about it. In this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. We have a special guest interview segment where we get to talk to a pharmacist who also happens to be

0:22.2

pregnant and we do our weekly BFPs and BFNs. Let's get to it. Hi everybody. Welcome to episode

0:30.5

14. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. We're going to kick it off with our weekly check-ins. Laura, I'm dying to know what week

0:39.3

you are and what the heck's been going on. Well, I'm at 21 weeks, so I'm into the second half of this

0:45.2

pregnancy. And yeah, it's pretty smooth sailing. You know, last week was the big anatomy scan,

0:50.2

so this week's kind of boring. But I definitely noticed a trend, which was people are starting to tell me congrats.

1:00.3

You know, like, I'm obviously pregnant now.

1:03.1

It's not just like maybe I ate a little bit too much.

1:06.9

Like, I'm definitely pregnant.

1:08.1

And I've bought some, you know, form-fitting maternity shirts.

1:12.0

So, rooshed, as we mentioned last episode. Yes. Rooshed and gathered. But, um, so people,

1:18.7

random people have told me congrats. I've been telling more people because the anatomy scan went well.

1:23.3

And I have such a weird reaction when people tell me congrats. Like I feel like, I kind of feel like a fraud.

1:30.7

Why?

1:31.6

What do you mean?

1:32.5

I feel like I'm not doing anything.

1:37.4

You know, because I feel like you and I were both creative folk, right?

1:41.7

And I feel like when I've gotten congrats in the past is when I've

1:45.6

worked hard to create something. And I guess in like the most primal sense, I am, you know,

1:52.9

creating the biggest thing I could ever create. But I don't feel like I'm working very hard at it.

1:58.8

Yeah. You know? Yeah, it's not like you did a school play and

2:03.7

rehearsed for six weeks and are getting like a bouquet of flowers at the end. Yeah. It's just like

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