Ep. 361: The Blame Game
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment, "They Said What?!," Shanna and Laura report on the shocking, funny and questionable things people have said to them lately, including some unexpected advice about children's growth, a shocking toy-store declaration, an amusing accusation and more. Also, Laura discusses getting a breast ultrasound after having an inconclusive mammogram, and Shanna recounts an exasperating excursion with her 6-year-old. 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:
-Getting a breast ultrasound after having an inconclusive mammogram
-Spending one-on-one time with your child
-When your kids' blame inanimate objects for their injuries
-Encouraging your kids to be independent in public
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.0 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.8 | We have our special segment. |
| 0:09.0 | They said, what? |
| 0:10.2 | Where we hear some interesting things about magnets, couches, tokens, and a certain New Zealand fruit. |
| 0:16.4 | And we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:19.4 | Let's get started. |
| 0:22.4 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to the show. This is episode 361. I'm here with Laura. Hey, friend. |
| 0:29.7 | Hello, friend. Hello. Why don't you give us your check-in this week and tell us what's going on in your world? |
| 0:36.2 | So this week's check-in, I wanted to |
| 0:38.1 | focus on the fact that I had my follow-up breast ultrasound after my mammogram came back |
| 0:45.5 | inconclusive, considering the fact that my boobs were too dense. Oh, right. I forgot about that. Okay, |
| 0:52.0 | so is it different than the mammogram? What's it like? |
| 0:56.7 | Yes, it's quite different from the mammogram. The mammogram is more like an x-ray in a way. You go in, you get your boobs smushed by this device and they take like an arcing x-ray, right? Like they have some machine that kind of like, |
| 1:11.1 | weep, goes around it. |
| 1:12.3 | At least that's how mine was. |
| 1:13.4 | Is that how the ones you've had are? Yeah, now that you mention it. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And when I had that, what was that, a couple months ago, they were like, cool, we can't see anything in this. Like, we don't know if anything's happening because your boobs are too dense. |
| 1:26.2 | And that mammogram |
| 1:27.5 | resulted in something called a Byrads zero reading. Okay. I don't know what that means. |
| 1:35.1 | I didn't either. So ByRads apparently is the breast imaging, reporting, and data system, |
| 1:41.3 | which is some kind of standardized rating system to interpret mammograms or any |
| 1:46.9 | imaging of your breasts, I guess. And a zero basically means we don't have enough information |
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