Ep. 3: When Will My Morning Sickness Go Away? (10 and 14 Weeks Pregnant)
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Laura reveals the sex of her baby and shares the results of her noninvasive prenatal test (NIPT), and Shanna talks about morning sickness as well as celebrating her birthday while pregnant and how she feels about being a "geriatric" mom. In the special segment "Today I Learned," the moms-to-be discuss fun and unusual pregnancy facts they learned recently, diving into the topics of fetal body hair, Disneyland and more. Finally, they divulge their highs and lows (BFPs and BFNs) this week. Laura is 10 weeks pregnant, and Shanna is 14 weeks pregnant.
Topics discussed this week:
-Week 10 of pregnancy
-Week 14 of pregnancy
-Gender reveal
-Baby sex
-Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT)
-Morning sickness
-Pregnancy nausea
-Food aversions
-Turning 40
-Geriatric pregnancy / geriatric mom
-Advanced maternal age
-Lenugo
-Fetal body hair
-Disneyland while pregnant
-Telling people about pregnancy
-Pregnancy nausea
-Pregnancy and alcohol
-Pregnancy restrictions
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. I'm Shauna. And I'm Laura. We're friends and writing partners who got pregnant at the exact same time. So we started a podcast about it. This week, we've got our weekly check-ins. We've got a new segment called Today I Learned, where we wonder, is Shauna's baby really a werewolf? And then we've got our BFPs and BFeds for the week, where we hit the highs and lows of this week in pregnancy. In just a heads up, we were still figuring out all the technical details when we recorded these segments you're about to hear, so you'll probably notice that in the audio. But we promise that things only get better, especially once we really get going in episode five. Let's get to it. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome! |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome, everyone. |
| 0:43.0 | So, every week we do our weekly check-in where we discuss what's going on with our pregnancies this week. |
| 0:49.5 | And this week, Shauna, you are at how many weeks? |
| 0:52.7 | 14. |
| 0:53.6 | Oh, dang. |
| 1:13.0 | Out of the first trimester. Thank the Lord. That's amazing. Yeah, it is amazing. You have something to look forward to, my friend. You do. Wait, I cannot wait. So my biggest note for this week check-in is my nausea, my morning sickness, is gone. Really? I mean, I'm a little bit queasy here and there, |
| 1:18.8 | but my smell aversions, my food aversions, for the most part, are gone, because that's what usually causes me queasiness. Yeah, so like things are back on the table now, LaCroix, morning coffee, |
| 1:25.2 | all kinds of things. And I just feel so much better. Yeah, it's awesome. |
| 1:29.7 | Was it like a flip that switched? Like suddenly it was gone? Or was it gradual? |
| 1:35.8 | It was gradual only like over a couple days, though. It was actually pretty, pretty quick. |
| 1:40.8 | Oh, God, I can't wait. Yes. Oh, my God, that's amazing. There's hope for you. |
| 1:44.4 | There's hope for you. |
| 1:45.0 | Oh, thank you. |
| 1:45.9 | This week is something that's been on my mind. |
| 1:47.7 | Oh, well, I turned 40. Oh, that's right. Oh, my God. I can't believe I forgot about that. Oh, my God. I had a birthday. Yes, that you ran away for. We didn't get to celebrate together. |
| 1:59.2 | I know. |
| 1:59.7 | I went up to Northern California with my family and my best friend, Melissa. |
| 2:03.7 | And... for we didn't get to celebrate together. I know. I went up to Northern California with my family and |
| 2:02.4 | my best friend Melissa and turned 40 as a pregnant lady. And it was kind of weird. I'm not going to lie. |
| 2:09.1 | Like I never thought I'd be pregnant on my 40th birthday. And here we are. I don't know. It was all right. |
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