Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive. This week we've got our weekly check-ins. We've got our regular

segment, internet insanity, and we've got our BFPs and BFNs for the week. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to the show. Hi. This is episode 22. And Shauna, let's hear your weekly check-in for this week. All right. Well,

I'm week 33. 33. It's a nice, just, this is a juicy number. I like it. I know. I like it.

It's good. And I have a couple things to report. The first is, so I think a couple weeks back I mentioned that I caught a cold or

bronchitis or virus of some sort. And that sucker has not gone away. Seriously? I've been sick for

three and a half weeks. Oh, God. Yeah. And the doctor's like, it's a virus, nothing I could do for you. And yeah, when you're pregnant, your immune system is lower. So sorry about that. Thanks, buddy. Yeah. So I am so drained, like, so drained being sick. I'm not sleeping well at night, still getting up to go to work, take care of the kid,

blah, blah, blah. So I decided that I wanted to ask my boss if there's anything she could do to

help me out here. Because technically I could get my doctor to sign off on some extra time,

like paid disability time before my delivery. And he's like, yeah, with what do you have going on,

everything, I could do that. And so I was like, I don't really want to do that. I don't want to screw you guys. I want to be there for you as an employee, blah, blah, but there's, is there anything you can do? Like, help me take care of myself. Also, like, be a good employee. And she offered to let me work from home. Oh, really? Yes, I started working from home until my

official maternity leave starts, which is two weeks before my due date. Oh my gosh, that's great.

I've done a couple days of that, and it is so helpful. I can't even tell you, like, not having to

commute in the morning, rush around and

get my daughter ready for school. It's helped me already tremendously. So I'm so grateful.

Your commute is already was, I guess, past tense, pretty hefty, right? I mean, it's like,

depending on the day 30 to 45 minutes in the car there and back. And it's with my kid because I take her to school, which is where I work. So yeah, it's just a lot, you know, trying to wrangle that kid in the car and blah, blah, blah. So. Yeah, I mean, that's, you're reclaimed like an hour to an hour and a half of your

day every day yeah and i think maybe i'm a more productive employee because i have like a little

extra time and an extra mental space to like be focused on working for sure it's been wonderful

and i'm so grateful to my supervisor for this. And it's just,

yeah, it's been awesome. Yeah. I mean, I, I, when I had to work in an office, so, so, so,

the background is that I used to work normal, you know, nine to five, actually at the same place

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