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Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)

Ep. 25: Drinking While Breastfeeding (32 and 36 Weeks Pregnant)

Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)

Laura Birek, Shanna Micko

Parenting, Comedy, Kids & Family

4.7531 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In the special segment "Today I Learned," Shanna and Laura discuss fascinating facts they’ve recently learned about pregnancy, diving into the topics of drinking alcohol while breastfeeding and whether pregnancy is contagious. Also, Shanna reports on starting her maternity leave, and Laura discusses her mini baby shower and blessingway. Finally the moms-to-be reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Laura is 32 weeks pregnant, and Shanna is 36 weeks pregnant.


Topics discussed in this episode:

-Week 32 of pregnancy

-Week 36 of pregnancy

-Celebrating Thanksgiving when you're in the third trimester

-Having a mini baby shower with family members

-Having a blessingway ceremony to celebrate your pregnancy

-Constantly needing to pee in the third trimester

-Starting maternity leave

-Answering the question "is pregnancy contagious"

-Cribsheet and Expecting Better by Emily Oster

-Can I drink alcohol while breastfeeding or do I need to pump and dump?

-Most comfortable bed when in the third trimester

-Watching Daniel Tiger


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.

0:04.4

On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins.

0:07.0

We have our special segment called Today I Learned, where we share with you some interesting

0:10.8

tidbits we've recently learned about pregnancy and childbirth.

0:14.3

And we end our show with our weekly BFPs and BFMs.

0:17.9

Let's get started.

0:22.3

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the show on this very merry Christmas week.

0:27.7

Ho, ho, ho. Welcome, everyone. Hi, Laura. How are you today? I am doing pretty good. How about you?

0:35.3

Good, good. I love the holidays, but that's not really why we're here.

0:39.6

We're here to check in on our pregnancies. So do you want to jump right in? I do. Okay, so this week,

0:47.3

I'm actually going to talk about, I am 32 weeks pregnant. And so my check-in actually has to do a lot with Thanksgiving. And this might be

0:55.9

confusing since we just said, ho, ho, ho, and welcome to Christmas week. But you should know that we

1:01.2

record in real time and then we release our episodes a little bit late because we want to have a few

1:06.7

episodes in the bank, so to speak. So when, you know, for instance, when Shana has her planned C-section in a couple weeks,

1:13.8

we're not going to be left leaving you all high and dry without any episodes.

1:17.5

So that's why I'm talking about Thanksgiving on Christmas week.

1:21.7

But so I, this week in the past, I was, I went up to Fresno for Thanksgiving which is where I'm from

1:30.2

as you know and it was really nice it turns out so so my parents are divorced and my mom and

1:38.4

stepdad were actually out of the country they were in Cabo in Mexico Cabo San Lucas that is the

1:44.0

best Thanksgiving plan I've ever heard.

1:46.4

Yeah. Well, they were there with my three step sisters and their kids. So there was six kids and

1:52.3

six additional adults. And so they had a big family thing. And I actually had gone a couple

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