Ep. 2: Should I Keep My Pregnancy a Secret? (9 and 13 Weeks Pregnant)
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Shanna reports on her first trimester screening and shares the results of her nuchal translucency scan (NT scan), and Laura discusses how her geneticist mom encouraged her to do comprehensive genetic testing. In the special segment "OMG I'm Freaking Out," the moms-to-be also discuss what pregnancy related topics they felt anxious about recently, diving into the topics of telling friends and family about being pregnant, getting home renovations done before the baby arrives and more. Finally they divulge their highs and lows (BFPs and BFNs) this week. Laura is 9 weeks pregnant, and Shanna is 13 weeks pregnant.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Week 9 of pregnancy
-Week 13 of pregnancy
-Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT)
-First-trimester screening
-NT scan
-Genetic testing in pregnancy
-3D ultrasounds
-Sharing news of being pregnant
-Pregnancy announcement
-Home renovation
-Maternity jeans
-Maternity clothes
-Keeping pregnancy a secret
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast contains explicit material that may not be suitable for children. |
| 0:04.0 | So if your kids are around, put on your headphones. |
| 0:06.2 | Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Laura. |
| 0:14.2 | And I'm Shauna. |
| 0:15.1 | And we're friends and writing partners who just happen to be pregnant at the exact same time. |
| 0:19.2 | So we started a podcast. |
| 0:20.5 | On this week's show, |
| 0:21.7 | we have our weekly check-ins. We have a special segment called OMG, I'm freaking out, in which I |
| 0:26.8 | wonder if maybe I just jinxed my entire pregnancy. And we wrap it up with our BFPs and BFNs, where we talk |
| 0:32.9 | about the highs and lows of our week. Just a quick heads up. So we were still figuring out all |
| 0:36.9 | the technical |
| 0:37.7 | details about the podcast world when we recorded these segments you're about to hear. So you may |
| 0:42.7 | notice that in the audio, but we promise it only gets better and especially when we really get |
| 0:49.1 | going and we know our stuff in episode five. Let's get started. Welcome to our podcast. Welcome. |
| 0:57.8 | We're going to start off as we do every week with our weekly check-in. So Laura, what happened |
| 1:03.3 | with you and your pregnancy this week? So I am nine weeks now moving along. The main thing is I went |
| 1:10.4 | to go get all the blood screening for the my nipped or nipty or nips |
| 1:15.9 | NIPS. |
| 1:17.2 | This is a screening. |
| 1:18.7 | I feel like mine's a little different than, I mean, it's not different. |
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