Ep. 331 - Toddler Queens
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "Today I Learned," Laura and Shanna discuss the fascinating or unusual things they have learned recently, including a historical parenting choice that resonates today, a surprising weeklong break that some schools in the U.S. take and more. Also, Laura reports on leaving her kids for two nights for the first time ever, and Shanna talks about her 5-year-old's recent class presentation. Finally, the moms 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:
-Going out of town without your kids for the first time
-What will happen to my milk supply if I go out of town without my nursing child?
-Is walking pneumonia going around?
-Parenting when you and your partner are sick at the same time
-Are cats affected by having kids in the home?
-What is the history of baby leashes?
-What is Ski Week at schools?
-When toddlers become queens
-Do I need to get my tonsils out?
-Car seat buckle helper
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.1 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.5 | We have our special segment. |
| 0:08.6 | Today I Learned, where we dive into the topics of miniature monarchs, baffling school breaks, and more. |
| 0:14.9 | And we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:17.6 | Let's get started. |
| 0:20.5 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to episode 331. Hi, Laura. Hi, Shana. |
| 0:25.5 | How is it going? Tell us what's going on in your world this week. Okay. So the big event that |
| 0:31.4 | happened around here is that I wasn't with my children this weekend. |
| 0:38.0 | Ooh. |
| 0:39.6 | Why? |
| 0:46.0 | I have finally decided that motherhood is just not for me, and I bolted. |
| 0:46.7 | Oh! |
| 0:48.2 | No, no, no, no. |
| 0:49.0 | I love my children. |
| 0:49.7 | I love my family. |
| 0:50.9 | I'm not a flight risk. But I did fly away to the desert for two nights this week because I went and did a |
| 0:57.7 | writer's retreat with Gia, friend of the podcast, Gia Gambara Blunt, because we are currently |
| 1:03.5 | writing a potty trading book together and our due date is coming up. And we're like, well, we got to do |
| 1:08.9 | something to help get this book written. |
| 1:11.5 | And Gia suggested we do a little two nights writers retreat out in Palm Desert. |
| 1:17.0 | And so at first I was a little nervous because I was like, I've never been away from my kids for more than one night. |
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