Ep. 32: Laura’s Breech Baby Birth Story (39 Weeks Pregnant and 4 Weeks Postpartum)
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s special segment, "Big Topic," Shanna and Laura dive deep into a very exciting event… Laura’s c-section delivery of her baby boy! She reports on her nerves and anxiety the night before, what the experience was like to deliver a breech baby, breastfeeding after delivery, baby's first bath, and unexpected challenge after returning home from the hospital and more. Also, Shanna reports on her newborn's struggles with acid reflux and the advice the pediatrician gave her to improve it. Finally, the new moms reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna is four weeks postpartum, her baby is four weeks old, Laura is no longer pregnant, and her baby is one week old!
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Week 39 of pregnancy
-1 week postpartum
-4 weeks postpartum
-4-week-old baby
-1-week-old baby
-Giving birth to a breech baby via planned c-section
-Breastfeeding colostrum to your newborn
-Having high blood pressure postpartum (preeclampsia)
-Newborn baby having trouble sleeping at night
-What to do when your newborn has reflux
-Getting a SNOO crib for your baby
-Using a hands-free breast pump
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura on this week's exciting episode. |
| 0:07.0 | We have our weekly check-ins, of course, and we're going to check in with Laura about some very big news. |
| 0:13.1 | And, of course, we'll wrap things up with our BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:16.5 | I can't wait to get started. Let's go. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to episode 32 of Big Fat Positive. |
| 0:25.2 | Hello, hello. Hello, Shauna. I haven't talked to you in a while. And I'm excited to catch up with you. |
| 0:31.5 | But before we get to my week, let's get to your week. What's your weekly check-in this week? |
| 0:36.5 | So my baby is four weeks old now. That's a month. |
| 0:40.1 | I know. I know. I cannot even believe it. It's like that phrase the longest, shortest time. Like, |
| 0:46.5 | it's just felt like insanely long and dragged down hard, but also it's gone by in the blink of an eye. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah. Yeah, so basically |
| 0:55.8 | this week was really, really rough because everyone in my household was sick except my four-week-old. |
| 1:03.7 | Oh my goodness. Yeah, my husband got strep, my daughter got pink eye. Jesus Christ. |
| 1:10.0 | I ended up getting a really bad sore throat and was like, well, I probably have stripped, too. |
| 1:14.5 | So I just started taking a moxasillin that I had on hand. |
| 1:17.2 | And I got her pink eye. |
| 1:19.1 | Oh, great. |
| 1:20.8 | Yeah, it was just loads of fun. |
| 1:24.0 | And my husband wasn't, you know, as available to help out as much because he was really sick, like really, the worst sore throat he's had in like his life. Strep is terrible. Like, absolutely terrible. Yeah. Yeah. So I definitely had sympathy for him. But at the same time, I was like, come back into the bedroom. Help me with the baby. But of course, you don't want him to give strep to the baby, so that must have also been kind of nerve-wracking. Oh, totally, totally. But yeah, and then baby's doing well. She's gaining weight. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm so happy. She's been having trouble at night, though. Like, at first I thought she was confusing night and day like she would kind of grunts |
| 2:01.3 | and kind of scream in her sleep from like 3 a.m. on and it was keeping me awake like I barely got |
| 2:06.9 | any sleep this week and we went to her one month checkup and we were talking to the doctor about it |
| 2:12.1 | and he's like oh if you know if she's acting like that about that time of day, like 3 a.m., it's probably reflux. |
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