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Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)

Ep. 359: Is This the End (of Extended Breastfeeding)?

Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)

Laura Birek, Shanna Micko

Parenting, Comedy, Kids & Family

4.7531 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In the special segment "Loose Ends," Laura and Shanna give updates about topics they've talked about previously, including extended breastfeeding, bangs, book clubs and more! Also, Laura reports on taking her 6-year-old on the most thrilling ride of his life at California Adventure, and Shanna discusses how her 9-year-old handled her first Easter knowing the truth about the Easter Bunny. 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 to do on spring break with your kids

-Going to Disneyland and California Adventure with your family

-Celebrating Easter when your kid doesn't believe in the Easter Bunny anymore

-When your kids have strong feelings about their stuffed animals

-Letting your kids express themselves with hairstyles, piercings and more

-Has Laura stopped breastfeeding Sebastian?

-Considering adopting a new family dog


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


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shana and Laura.

0:05.4

On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins.

0:07.5

We have our special segment, Loose Ans, where we find out if I got a second dog,

0:11.7

and if Laura is still breastfeeding, we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs.

0:16.3

Let's get started.

0:19.3

Hello and howdy-duty, everybody. Welcome to episode 359. Hey, Laura. Hi, Shana. Hi. All right. Kick us off.

0:27.3

What is your check-in for this week? Well, this week was spring break for us. I think it was for you, too, right?

0:33.5

Yeah. Yeah. And we took a couple days this week to go on an adventure down to Anaheim, California.

0:42.0

Oh, gee, I wonder what you did in Anaheim.

0:45.3

Hmm.

0:46.7

We just drove down to Anaheim and did absolutely nothing of note or interest.

0:51.7

You just went to a Starbucks there and then go back.

0:54.0

Yeah. No, we went

0:56.5

down to Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure. I'm not going to bore everyone with our

1:02.8

millionth check-in from Disneyland because at this point, it's like we're regulars, but we're not.

1:07.1

I mean, we don't even have passes, but it kind of feels like we do because we had gotten so many

1:11.9

free trips from my friend Marilyn, who sent us a bunch of her, like, friends and family tickets.

1:17.6

And then this year, we took advantage of the Southern California resident ticket thing,

1:23.5

which was basically like three days for the price of one. So back when we went for Sebastian's fourth birthday, that's the package we got. So at that point, we were like, well, we'll probably go, you know, we'll pick like two random days to go. Like, you have to use them before the middle of May, the other two days. And I was just like, oh, we'll go for his birthday and then we'll

1:44.8

go sometime in March, sometime in April, like, whatever. Well, my mom was like, what if instead

1:50.9

we use those tickets on two consecutive days and go down and like stay at a hotel down there and

1:57.0

like make a whole trip out of it for spring break. Aw, fun. Super fun. And I was like,

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