Ep. 353: Big Change, Big Tears
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "Never Have I Ever: Parenting Edition," Shanna and Laura reveal funny and unexpected things they've never done before having kids, including giving out inappropriate items at a kids' party, using a children's couch for a risky DIY project and more! Also, Laura talks about living on the edge all week to see if her 4-year-old's cheek scratch will heal before his preschool picture day, and Shanna reports on her 6-year-old's big change that caused lots of tears. 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:
-Preschool picture day
-How quickly kids' injuries heal
-Cutting your kids' bangs at home
-Buying kids' sticker packs on Amazon and regretting it
-Using the Nugget kids' couch in creative ways
-Fixing a broken baby monitor
-Parenting while having the flu
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:07.7 | We have our special segment, Never Have I Ever, Parenting Edition, where we talk about inappropriate party gifts and innovative uses of the Nugget. |
| 0:15.9 | We wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and the FMs. |
| 0:18.6 | Let's get started. |
| 0:22.8 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 353. Hi, Laura, my friend. Hello, Shana. Fancy meeting you here. Indeed. I'm so excited to talk to |
| 0:29.5 | you, as always, and see what's going on in your world. So why don't you kick us off with your check-in? |
| 0:34.7 | Okay, so this week, the most important event on our calendar was probably |
| 0:38.5 | that Sebastian had his picture day this week. Oh, I love picture day. I love picture day, but I hate |
| 0:47.0 | waiting for the pictures. I just truly despise the weight. And I know that's just my own problem, |
| 0:54.0 | because whenever they come, they're so |
| 0:55.6 | cute. And I love the woman who does the preschool photos for his school. She just does them on |
| 1:02.4 | this like all black background and gets them to make the cutest faces. And it's just a highlight. |
| 1:07.5 | Yeah. But the only stress about it was that if you recall, last week, Sebastian went to a park and scraped the crap out of his cheek. |
| 1:16.3 | Oh, that's right. |
| 1:17.5 | Right in time for picture day. |
| 1:19.3 | Yes. |
| 1:20.2 | So the whole school had picture week, basically. |
| 1:23.5 | They were doing it class by class. |
| 1:25.2 | And thankfully, his class was on Friday. |
| 1:29.1 | So he was absolutely last to go. |
| 1:32.0 | That's so lucky. |
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