Ep. 325 - The Creepy Thing Laura Heard on the Baby Monitor
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "Never Have I Ever: Parenting Edition," Laura and Shanna dive into the topics of unusual things we have bought for our kids, the eerie things we've heard lately as parents and more! Also, Laura discusses her experience getting a colonoscopy and how it affected her mom life, and Shanna reports on the newest reward system she's invented for her kids. Finally, they share their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna's kids are 5.5 and 8.5 years old, and Laura’s kids are 5.5 years old and 3.5 years old.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Getting a colonoscopy
-Preparing for a colonoscopy when you're a mom
-Creating a reward system for your kids to incentivize good behavior
-When your kid wants to use vampire teeth
-Handling your child's big emotions at pickup time
-When your child talks about their past lives
-Hearing creepy things on the baby monitor
-Trouble with kids' extracurricular activities
-Spending time with family friends
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shana and Laura. |
| 0:05.3 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.6 | We have our special segment, Never Have I Ever, parenting edition, where we share some eerie experiences. |
| 0:13.5 | And we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:16.4 | Let's get started. |
| 0:19.3 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 325. Hi, Laura. Hi, Shana. |
| 0:25.1 | Hello. All right. Why don't you kick us off with your check-in for the week? Well, this week I'm a little |
| 0:31.3 | pooped. Oh, uh-oh. |
| 0:38.3 | Why? |
| 0:39.2 | What's going on? |
| 0:39.7 | All right. |
| 0:40.5 | So warning. |
| 0:49.2 | There's going to be a little bit of poop talk in this episode just because, and nothing graphic guys, but it's just because I had a colonoscopy this week. |
| 0:51.1 | Ah, okay. |
| 1:12.6 | And, you know, I kind of debated talking about it because it's a medical procedure, right? Like, who cares? You know, people go get medical procedures all the time. But I do feel like there's a bit of a stigma around it. I don't know, because it involves your butt. And, you know, I remember back in the day when Katie Couric took everyone on her colonoscopy journey with her. |
| 1:18.6 | And apparently like colonoscopy rates shot through the roof because everyone was suddenly okay with getting it done themselves. |
| 1:24.1 | I thought I would demystify it and tell you about my process and all of that. |
| 1:26.4 | But I promised not to go into too much detail. |
| 1:28.6 | Especially because it's so important to get colonoscopy is to be screened for colon cancer, right? Yes. And the reason I should say that I was |
| 1:34.2 | getting one at the young age of 42 is because there's a family history in my family of colon cancer. |
| 1:41.0 | So my GI, and I just have like GI issues. Like everyone knows about my heartburn, right? So I actually, interestingly, I was getting an upper and lower endoscopy at the same time. So they checked out my esophagus at the same time. So I like, they're in both ways. Yeah. But, you know, they're sedating you anyway. So they're like, and you've cleaned yourself out anyway. So it's like, let's check everything out. Okay. So my GI doctor was like, yeah, let's just get, you know, you're a little young, but you have a family history. And so let's get the colonoscopy done and we can be reassured, right? So I was actually supposed to get this done way back in May. And then Sebastian got a stomach flu of some sort, some kind of tummy bug, |
| 2:20.6 | about a week before I was supposed to get it done. And I was like, hell, no, I am not going through |
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