Ep 173: Probably A Christmas Special
Probably a Podcast
Dear Media
4.3 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
It’s tiiiiime for the annual Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, or whatever-you-celebrate Special! Shannon is reporting tree-side to dive into all things Christmas and holidays. She shares their travel plans, including where they will spend Christmas and New Year's, and Daisy’s upcoming first international trip! She shares the Christmas gifts she bought for each person in her family, and the importance of making your own magic during the holiday season. But wait, there’s more! Shannon gets her first postpartum period (IYKYK) and gives her take on the famous case of pads v. tampons. She opens up about sleep-training her baby with the help of a virtual sleep coach, and why it ended up being one of the best decisions for her family (Shoutout Jess!). Shannon discusses her excitement for their home in Charleston and what their plans are for the new city. It’s a slam-jam-packed episode, so cozy up, grab a Peppermint Mocha™, and enjoy your yearly dose of shenanigans in Probably A Christmas Special. Merry Menstruation! I mean Christmas!
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction and Holiday Greetings
00:55 Personal Updates: Periods and Postpartum Experiences
08:21 Sleep Training and Parenting Insights
18:42 We’re Moving to Charleston?
31:02 Holiday Plans and Travel Tips
32:28 Christmas Plans and Family Gifts
49:20 Q&A: Parenting Tips and Traditions
55:11 Holiday Wishes and Final Thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.9 | Ho, ho, ho, ho. |
| 0:07.6 | Nope. |
| 0:09.2 | Merry Christmas. |
| 0:13.4 | Guys, welcome to the ever-beloved Christmas special for probably podcast. One thing about me, I fucking love Christmas, dude. |
| 0:24.4 | Another thing about me, I love Hanukkah. I don't know much about Hanukkah. It's been a while |
| 0:27.6 | since I watched that Rugrats episode. But I just want to say a very merry whatever you're |
| 0:33.5 | celebrating. Kwanza, Hanukkah, Christmas, it's just a jolly fucking good time to be here. And every once in a while, my podcast falls right on this week. And we always talk about maybe taking Christmas off, maybe taking New Year's off. And then I just says to myself, but then when will we do the fucking Christmas special? And I'm really happy to be here. We're going to try to keep things Christmas theme, but I also just have some stuff to talk about, okay? First things first, Merry Christmas. |
| 0:58.2 | To me, I got my period back. And I really don't like when people talk about their periods on |
| 1:04.8 | social media. I'm like, leucky, you know, just kind of, I don't care, I don't need to know. I don't want to know. But I will say, having had a baby, I am very interested. Like, when I started a period, I was like, oh, I have questions for people who have also had a baby and started their period. Now, I'm going to say this out loud. And then the exact opposite. I'm going to say a couple things in this podcast. I'm going to talk about my daughter's sleep. Nope, you shouldn't do that. I'm going to talk about my period. Nope, we shouldn't do that. But here we go. It really was a bad. I was shocked. I am someone who has always had extremely, extremely, extremely bad cramps, like right before I start my period. And I am lucky in the sense |
| 1:44.1 | that, like, I have really miserable day before and first day. And then after that, you know, just for, I'm just bleeding. It's not really cramped city. Uh, but this came out of nowhere. It, it hit me like a ton of perks. I said, well, what the, what is this? I woke up. I said, I was actually wearing my in my Sunday's pajamas, |
| 2:00.8 | they were Christmas trees, |
| 2:01.5 | and I was like, |
| 2:01.9 | why is I red on this? |
| 2:02.5 | I was like, |
| 2:02.8 | oh my God, |
| 2:03.4 | I started my period. |
| 2:04.6 | Um, what the what is this i woke up i said i was actually wearing my in my sundays pajamas they were |
| 2:00.9 | christmas trees and i was like why is i read on this i was like oh my god i started my period um |
| 2:04.9 | very familiar story to claudia who said she started her i actually texted her i said um canon event |
| 2:09.1 | i started my period after my baby first baby in my in my sundays pajamas and blood all over them |
| 2:14.6 | and she was like perfect hers were the hydrangeous print. Mine was Christmas |
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