Ep. 28 - Shanna's C-Section Birth Story (35 and 39 Weeks Pregnant)
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s special segment, "Big Topic," Shanna and Laura dive deep into the highly anticipated event… Shanna’s birth! Shanna talks about what it was like to have a planned c-section birth, what her hospital stay was like, how the baby is doing and more! Also, Laura reports on her baby shower and discusses her birth plan for her breech baby. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Laura is 35 weeks pregnant, and Shanna is no longer pregnant!
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Week 35 of pregnancy
-Week 39 of pregnancy
-Having a baby shower
-Planning for a breech baby delivery
-Giving birth
-Having a planned c-section delivery
-Useful things to have in your hospital bag
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive. This week we have our weekly check-ins. We have a very special segment with some big news and we have our weekly BFPs and BFNs. Let's get to it. |
| 0:16.0 | Hey, guys. This is episode 28. Hi, Shawna. |
| 0:21.6 | Hello. |
| 0:22.7 | So we usually start with our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:26.5 | Did you have anything going on this week? |
| 0:30.1 | I have just a tiny piece of news for my check-in, Laura. |
| 0:34.0 | A little bit? |
| 0:34.4 | This is going to just take you by surprise and really blindside you and our listeners. |
| 0:39.8 | I had a baby. |
| 0:41.3 | What? |
| 0:43.2 | I had a baby this week. |
| 0:44.8 | Oh, my! |
| 0:48.7 | The overall recap is things went well. |
| 0:51.9 | I'm doing well. |
| 0:52.8 | Baby's doing well. |
| 0:53.8 | But I was thinking, and you were thinking |
| 0:55.6 | that we could talk more about that in the middle of our show, like our big topic for the week. |
| 0:59.7 | So we can save all the juicy details for that. What do you think? Yes, we're going to do a deep dive |
| 1:04.0 | into your birth in the next segment. So we'll save it for then because it's too big of a deal |
| 1:10.8 | to just do in a weekly check-in. |
| 1:12.5 | Yeah, yeah, definitely. |
| 1:14.4 | So all right then. |
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