Ep. 356: School Fundraising Events Gone Wrong
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment “Stump the Moms,” Shanna and Laura quiz each other with trivia questions about bizarre school fundraisers, lengthy human pregnancies, fertility crime and more! Also, Shanna reports on talking to her 9-year-old daughter about rainbow babies and miscarriages, and Laura discusses the sporting events that got her family up and running. 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:
-What is a rainbow baby?
-Talking to your kids about miscarriage, IVF and your pregnancy journey
-Volunteering at your child's annual fundraiser
-School fundraising events gone wrong
-Old-fashioned parenting advice from the 1920s
-Who is Kaitlyn Braun?
-Treatment for your child's exercise-induced bronchospasms
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. This week we have our weekly check-ins. We have our special |
| 0:07.7 | segment, Stump the moms, where we talk about fundraising foibles and prolonged pregnancies, and we |
| 0:13.8 | close with our BFPs and BFNs for the week. Let's get started. Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode |
| 0:20.3 | 356. Hi, Shawna. Hello. Shall we get right to it? |
| 0:24.8 | You want to tell me what you've been up to this week? Oh yes, yes, yes. I had an interesting |
| 0:29.3 | conversation with Elle the other night at bedtime that I thought I would discuss. You guys have |
| 0:35.1 | been having a lot of big bedtime conversations recently. Last week |
| 0:39.2 | was the Santa conversation? Like, oh my goodness. Yeah. What is happening this week? I feel like |
| 0:46.0 | this is when you guys have the deep convos. For sure. Well, I was in a particularly chatty, unsleepy, unsleepy mood at bedtime the other night. |
| 0:57.6 | And I kind of like it, actually, when she's like that because, you know, we have lots of conversations and stuff. |
| 1:03.6 | And out of nowhere, she said, what was my name going to be if I was going to be a boy? |
| 1:09.6 | And I was like, well, I knew you were going to be a |
| 1:12.0 | girl. So I didn't really have any boy names picked out. And so we started talking about names |
| 1:18.1 | and stuff. And I told her some boy names I did like and maybe what her name was going to be. |
| 1:22.7 | Like we had a couple girl choices, blah, blah, blah. We were talking about names. And then that got |
| 1:26.5 | her on this different train of thought, which was, Mama, am I a rainbow baby? And I was like, oh, yeah, actually, you are. And I had a feeling she knew what Rainbow Baby was. And for listeners who might not know, a rainbow baby is a baby that you have after having a loss. |
| 1:47.5 | And my very first instinct was how does she know about Rainbow Babies? Because I don't think I've ever |
| 1:52.3 | talked to her about this topic and my experience. Yeah. And it's not like she's hanging out on Facebook |
| 1:58.4 | fertility groups, you know? Or maybe she is. |
| 2:01.4 | Maybe that's what she's doing online when I'm not looking at. |
| 2:05.9 | Ah, Mama, were you TTC for very long with me? |
| 2:11.2 | What were your HCG values with me? |
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