Ep. 26: Spinning Breech Babies (33 and 37 Weeks Pregnant)
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Laura reports on having a breech baby and whether her doctor is concerned about it at this point, and Shanna discusses getting weekly nonstress tests to check her baby's heart rate. Also, in the special segment “What I Googled This Week,” the moms-to-be divulge the pregnancy-related topics they asked the Internet about recently, including the topics of turning a breech baby, what to do with a newborn and more. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Laura is 33 weeks pregnant, and Shanna is 37 weeks pregnant.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Week 33 of pregnancy
-Week 37 of pregnancy
-Starting your maternity leave
-Nesting and getting the house and nursery ready before baby arrives
-Getting non-stress tests at the perinatologist
-When to be concerned about your baby being breech
-Methods for turning breech babies before their due date
-Feeling unprepared to care for a newborn
-Sleeping difficulty in the third trimester
-Taking early maternity leave before your due date
This episode's full show notes can be found here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive. |
| 0:04.8 | This week on the show, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.2 | We have our special segment, What I Googled this week. |
| 0:09.9 | And we have our BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:12.2 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:16.0 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:17.3 | Welcome to episode 26. |
| 0:26.1 | So, Shana, let's get right to it. What is going on with your week? Let's do our check-ins. |
| 0:37.4 | I am week 37, which means I have two weeks. Oh, my God, it's coming fast and furious. I can't even believe it. It's just like, oh, my God, there's so much going on in my mind trying to prep for this and trying to get ready. The good news is I have started my maternity leave. I took two weeks before my due date, my plan C-section. |
| 0:50.8 | So great. Oh, so great. So I could have some time. The first few days were, of course, |
| 0:55.0 | like the holiday, Thanksgiving and everything. But like the official maternity leave started Monday. |
| 0:59.9 | I'm home. My kid goes to preschool. My husband goes to work. And I'm home. And I've just got my |
| 1:05.9 | list of to-dos, which is long. Yes. Yes. Do you find you're whittling it down or do you add more things? |
| 1:15.5 | That's a good question. I actually wrote a list and then just like set it on the desk and now |
| 1:21.2 | it's just kind of living in my head. So I really don't know where I stand. But I do feel like I'm |
| 1:25.9 | getting stuff done. Like the nursery is really coming |
| 1:28.2 | along for a very, very, very pregnant lady. I actually have quite a bit of energy. That's great. |
| 1:34.3 | And yeah, I've been bustling around the house and painting and putting together furniture and |
| 1:40.3 | putting up wall decals and decorating and organizing and doing all kinds of wonderful nesting things |
| 1:47.0 | that just, oh, make me feel so good and happy. |
| 1:49.7 | And so I actually feel really happy and I'm really excited about my baby coming soon. |
| 1:53.8 | And I overall feeling really good. |
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