Ep. 346: Throwback: Shanna's Experience Having an Emergency C-Section
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "Throwback," Shanna turns back time to recount the story of the first time she gave birth and all the ways it turned out to be different from how she'd expected it to be. Also, Laura talks about introducing her 6-year-old to stop-motion animation, and Shanna reports on her last-minute scramble to plan an elaborate birthday party for her almost 9-year-old. Finally, the moms share their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna's kids are 6 and 8.5 years old, and Laura’s kids are 6 years old and 3.5 years old.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Planning an escape room birthday party for your kid
-Teaching your kids stop-motion animation
-Shanna's unplanned C-section birth story
-When your birth doesn't go as planned
-Moms supporting victims of the Los Angeles fires
-Setting boundaries for your kids' extracurricular activities
-Joining a book club
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:04.9 | This week we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:06.8 | We have our special segment, throwback, where Shauna takes us back in time nine years to tell the story of Elle's epic birth. |
| 0:14.2 | And we close with our BFPs and BFNs for the week. |
| 0:17.4 | Let's get started. |
| 0:18.9 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 346. Hi, Shana. Hi. Why don't we jump |
| 0:26.3 | right into it? Will you tell us what you've been up to this week? Well, we all know there's been |
| 0:30.4 | a lot of activity in the last several weeks. I feel like it's been relentless ever since |
| 0:35.8 | Cece's birthday, right? Like Sasha passed away, birthday party, birthday, Christmas, the fires, everything, right? |
| 0:42.3 | It's just been like, ah! |
| 0:43.7 | So this week, it's all over. |
| 0:49.1 | It's like the first week of calm in ages. |
| 0:52.6 | And I am like, yes, this is great. And then I remembered that Elle's birthday |
| 0:57.7 | is in a couple weeks. And I was like, oh, I forgot to plan a birthday party for her. Okay. Shocks. |
| 1:09.7 | And she didn't pre-plan her theme a year in advance, so it wasn't on your radar? |
| 1:15.2 | Exactly. She's not like Cece in that way. She doesn't plan her stuff a year in advance. |
| 1:19.6 | She did say she wanted to go to Sky Zone again, which is the trampoline park, right? |
| 1:25.0 | And so in the back of my mind, I guess I didn't worry about it too much |
| 1:27.8 | because it's a really easy place to throw a party, can kind of book it last minute, and whatever. |
| 1:33.6 | So I was like, okay, well, probably I just end up doing that. So the middle of this week at breakfast, |
| 1:37.2 | I was like, oh, so you still want to have your party at SkyZone. And she was like, yeah, no, |
| 1:49.2 | ooh, I really want a pinata. And I can't do a pinata at SkyZone. I want my party at home. And I was like, oh, okay, okay, okay. All right. Like, |
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