Ep. 27: What Happens if My Water Breaks? (34 and 38 Weeks Pregnant)
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Shanna’s delivery day is four days away, and she discusses the thoughts and emotions she's having about being so close to meeting her new daughter. Also, Laura talks about her recent visit to the pregnancy chiropractor to help with her symphysis pubis dysfunction (SPD) pain and attending a childcare and breastfeeding class. Also, in the special segment “Checkin’ the Inbox,” the moms-to-be answer listener questions about what they plan to do with the podcast after giving birth. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Laura is 34 weeks pregnant, and Shanna is 38 weeks pregnant.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Week 34 of pregnancy
-Week 38 of pregnancy
-Going to a pregnancy and infant chiropractor during pregnancy
-Symphysis pubis dysfunction (SPD) pain during pregnancy
-Taking a childcare and breastfeeding class in the third trimester
-The thoughts, emotions and fears in the days before giving birth
-What happens when your water breaks
-What Shanna and Laura will do with the podcast after giving birth
-Managing making a podcast while working and being a parent
-Renting maternity clothes for special events
-Spending time with your older child before giving birth to your new child
This episode's full show notes can be found here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:06.2 | On this week's show, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:08.9 | We have our special segment, Check in the Inbox, where we respond to listener questions. |
| 0:14.2 | And we end the episode with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:18.3 | Let's dive in. |
| 0:23.5 | Hello, hello, everybody. Welcome to episode 27. Welcome. Hi. We start every week with our weekly |
| 0:32.0 | check-ins. Laura, why don't you start us off? Well, I am week 34. Oh my gosh. I know. And this week, I started my |
| 0:43.6 | maternity leave as I discussed in the previous episode. Which is pretty exciting. And I have |
| 0:50.8 | totally like attacked the closet. We're attacking the garage. |
| 0:54.5 | I'm just feeling so good about just getting shit done. |
| 0:58.8 | I'm so into it. |
| 1:00.4 | Nice. |
| 1:01.2 | And the big sort of pregnancy-related thing I did this week is that I had that |
| 1:05.5 | chiropractor's appointment on Monday for that SPD, the pubic synthesis pain I've |
| 1:10.7 | been having. So, yeah, so I went to this place in Pasadena that SPD, the pubic synthesis pain I've been having. |
| 1:11.6 | So, yeah, so I went to this place in Pasadena that primarily or almost exclusively, I think, does pregnancy and infant chiropractics, |
| 1:21.1 | which we discussed. |
| 1:22.6 | I didn't even know you could do chiropractic work on an infant. |
| 1:25.4 | There was a little, there was a little baby in there when I was there. And it's like, he walked away feeling much better. I don't, not even walking. He was just a little itty-bitty, like four-month-old, I want to say, maybe. Maybe it's kind of sitting up on his own, so maybe a little older. I kind of was spying because it's kind of an open office. There's a private room if you're doing more like sensitive things, but then there's adjustment areas in the front. And they like warn you about that. And wow. Yeah, I wish I thought was a little, at first I was like, oh, this is a little strange. But then at the same time, I was like, you know, there's pros and cons both ways. Like, you know nothing weird's |
| 2:01.3 | going to go on if you're, like, out in the open, right? That's true. But yeah, so I got to see, |
| 2:06.5 | like, the other chiropractor. She was just kind of like massaging the baby's neck. It was pretty |
| 2:11.4 | cute, actually. The baby didn't like it. Oh, man. |
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