Ep. 30: Struggling to Breastfeed (37 Weeks Pregnant and 2 Weeks Postpartum)
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Shanna reports on her struggle to produce enough breastmilk to help her newborn gain weight, and Laura discusses decorating her baby’s nursery and sustaining an unexpected injury. In this week’s special segment, “What I Googled This Week,” the moms-to-be divulge the pregnancy-related topics they asked the Internet about recently, diving into the topics of using traditional Chinese medicine to try to turn a breech baby, experiencing discomfort while recovering from a c-section and more! Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Laura is 37 weeks pregnant, and Shanna is two weeks postpartum and her baby is two weeks old.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Week 37 of pregnancy
-2 weeks postpartum
-2-week-old baby
-Newborn baby not gaining weight
-Breastfeeding struggles
-Using galactagogues to increase breastmilk
-Having a unicornuate uterus
-Wondering why your baby is stuck in the breech position
-Decorating your baby's nursery
-Moxibustion
-C-section recovery and c-section scars
-Great British Baking Show
-Happiest Baby on the Block streaming video about soothing your baby in the fourth trimester
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. This week we've got our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:06.9 | We've got our special segment, What I Googled this week. And we close with our BFPs and BFNs. Let's get to it. |
| 0:14.9 | Hi, welcome. Hello, Shauna. |
| 0:17.8 | Hey, Laura. |
| 0:18.8 | We are on episode 30. |
| 0:21.5 | Just cranking them out. |
| 0:24.8 | We've still done one every week, which I'm pretty proud of. |
| 0:27.9 | Yeah, me too. |
| 0:29.0 | Considering, you know, things are changing. |
| 0:30.6 | So tell us how things are changing. |
| 0:32.0 | What's going on with your week this week? |
| 0:35.4 | Well, my baby's two weeks old now. And, well, I'm exhausted. Just, you know, |
| 0:43.7 | breastfeeding around the clock. And last week I was talking about how my baby hasn't gained any |
| 0:51.1 | weight. She lost like 8% of her birth weight and didn't gain anything. And she still |
| 0:56.0 | hasn't. She's so tiny. Yeah, we keep going back to the pediatrician and it's like nothing. And so the |
| 1:05.4 | latest thing, he's like, well, you're going to have to pump after every feed and then give her in a bottle a supplement of what you pumped out. |
| 1:14.7 | So now my routine is breastfeed for like who knows how long, 30 to 45 minutes, then pump and then put that in a bottle and then feed her. |
| 1:24.5 | I mean, my whole life is just feeding this child. |
| 1:27.3 | I'm so tired. You're just |
| 1:29.4 | being milked constantly all day. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I feel like a milk factory, which is fine because I love |
| 1:35.2 | my baby and I want her to gain weight and I'll do whatever it takes. But my God is so exhausting. |
| 1:40.9 | And my boobs hurt like hell. It's just like, oh, I can't wait till you're nine months old |
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