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Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)

Ep. 352: Making Progress with Your Selective Eater

Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)

Laura Birek, Shanna Micko

Parenting, Comedy, Kids & Family

4.7531 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In the special segment "Mom Wins," Laura and Shanna celebrate their recent parenting successes, diving into the topics of handling your child's selective eating and managing your kids' relationship with your pets. Also, Shanna discusses some changes that have inspired her to focus on her own needs, and Laura reports on giving her 6-year-old a long-overdue haircut. 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:

-Taking care of your mental health when you're a mom

-Working on mindfulness and self-care

-Giving your kid a haircut at home

-Handling your child's selective eating

-How long does it take to make progress with a picky eater?

-Managing your kids and your pets

-Helping your kids and pets get along

-Bailing on social activities

-Feeling impostor syndrome

-Taking your kids to Travel Town in Griffith Park


This episode's full show notes can be found here.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura.

0:05.2

This week, we have our weekly check-ins.

0:07.0

We have our special segment, Mom Wins, where Shauna and I are both a little surprised by some items our family members eat.

0:13.4

And we close with our BFPs and BFNs for the week.

0:16.2

Let's get started.

0:19.0

Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 352. Shana, are you on the line? Hi, I'm here.

0:26.2

Oh, good. It would have been a very boring podcast if it was just me talking to myself.

0:30.6

I would love it if you would give us your check-in. All right. It's been a pretty uneventful week,

0:36.5

just a couple of fun little outings with the kids and stuff.

0:39.7

But what I want to check in on is a little bit more me-focused this week.

0:45.5

Okay.

0:46.5

I love it, centering ourselves, prioritizing mom.

0:49.5

Let's do it.

0:50.4

Okay.

0:51.2

Around October, November last year, I learned that my job was switching health insurance plans for 2025. And that's always annoying, right? Because then you've got to find new doctors, yada, yada, yada. But what was really upsetting about this change is that the psychiatrist and therapist, it's the same person. He's

1:12.5

a psychiatrist, but he's also a psychotherapist. So I've been seen him for both of those things for

1:16.8

years. He was going to be out of network now. And it would cost me a fortune to continue seeing him.

1:24.4

This is the person I've been seeing since C.C. was like eight months old

1:29.0

when I was like, oh, I think I might need help for postpartum anxiety. And yeah, that's my person.

1:34.4

And I'm like, no, finding new doctors is so hard, especially, I don't know, mental health providers.

1:40.8

And most psychiatrists obviously don't also provide therapy, so I'm going to have to also

1:45.0

find a therapist. And it just felt so daunting. And I didn't do anything about it for all the rest of

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