Ep. 351: Appreciating Your Kids’ Positive Qualities
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 44 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 some "super" facts about nipples, nursing in the wild and more! Also, Laura reports on her 6-year-old's surprising symptom from an otherwise mild virus, and Shanna describes a dinnertime activity she created to celebrate her kids' positive qualities. Finally, the moms share their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna's kids are 6 and 9 years old, and Laura’s kids are 6 years old and 4 years old.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Slapped cheek syndrome
-Recognizing your kids' positive qualities
-Supernumerary nipples
-Elephant seals' nursing habits
-Spending one-on-one time with your child
-The joy of having spontaneous get-togethers
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shana and Laura. |
| 0:05.2 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.5 | We have our special segment Today I Learn, where we discover why Laura's brother flashed me at her kids' birthday party. |
| 0:14.9 | And we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:17.5 | Let's get started. |
| 0:20.2 | Hello, everyone. Good morning. good afternoon, good evening, whenever |
| 0:23.2 | you're listening. And howdy, Laura, good afternoon to you. Howdy duty, Shana. Howdy-duty? All right, |
| 0:30.2 | you know what we do here for segments, a little roundup of your week. Why don't you give us your |
| 0:34.7 | check-in? Okay, so this week was a bit of a chill week, |
| 0:42.9 | mostly because the kids were recovering from a very mild virus they had last weekend. |
| 0:48.5 | Mm-hmm. As you know, when you have kids who are four and six, they get sick a fair amount. |
| 0:54.0 | They're thankfully not getting sick as often as they have in previous years, which I don't know why I just said that out loud. |
| 1:02.7 | Knock on wood. Knock on my closet door. But they've been faring okay this season, which I'm grateful for. So when Sebastian woke up on Friday morning and looked a little sickly and threw up, |
| 1:08.7 | I was like, okay, we're due. You know what I mean? Like, I recognize that we were overdue for an illness. And thankfully, it was super mild for him to the point where we were not even sure if he just had like some reflux or something after eating because he only threw up one time and he had a |
| 1:30.1 | like not fever fever he had like a you know hundred degree temperature or something so that sort of |
| 1:35.3 | borderline technically not a fever but obviously something's going on with him yeah situation and |
| 1:42.0 | like Corey and I both felt duped on Friday that we had stayed home because we were both like, should we send him to school? No, we shouldn't. We shouldn't. We should be good people not send him to school. And then he was fine. And then the next day he had like one bout of diarrhea. So we're like, oh, okay, so there was something going on, right? Yeah. And we obviously stayed home from activities on the weekend and stuff, |
| 2:01.5 | just to be safe, but the guy had energy and was fine. Well, then Sunday morning rolls around and |
| 2:07.2 | Augie wakes up with a real fever, like 102 or something. And we're like, oh, okay, so maybe there was |
| 2:15.3 | something going on with Sebastian, because this timeline is really lining |
| 2:18.9 | up, right? And he was a little tired. He had a low fever, but he was fine within a day. And thankfully, |
| 2:25.6 | we had Monday off. It was a holiday. So he had an extra day to recover. And he was back to school |
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