Ep. 364: AI Baby Slop
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "Internet Insanity," Laura and Shanna share the wild and wacky content they've found online recently, including the hilariously horrible AI-generated videos that Laura can't look away from and an athletic event featuring microscopic competitors. Also, Shanna talks about teaching her 6-year-old how to swallow pills, and Laura reports on spending her birthday out and about. 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:
-Is my child's fever from a virus or bacterial infection?
-What to do when your child refuses to take medicine
-Teaching your child how to swallow pills
-Laura's birthday
-What is AI slop and how does it relate to babies?
-Fake videos of kids and babies in danger
-Sperm racing
Products, links, resources mentioned in this episode:
-How to Take a Pill: Teaching Kids How to Take Medication" video from Michigan Medicine
-"Hard Fork" podcast episode talking about AI slop
-AI Dog Saves Baby in Pool video
Past BFP episodes mentioned in this episode:
-Ep. 257 (For Shanna's story about Cece's refusal to take medicine despite 106 fevers)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.4 | This week we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.3 | We have our special segment, Internet Insanity, where I wonder, why is that baby sitting on a rickety bridge? |
| 0:12.9 | And Shauna is wondering what the heck they're racing downtown. |
| 0:16.3 | And we close with our BFPs and BFNs of the week. |
| 0:18.8 | Let's get started. |
| 0:23.4 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 364. We've almost made a full year of episodes if you listen every single day. Oh, yeah. Wow. |
| 0:32.8 | The moon has gone around the sun or the sun has gone around the earth. Wait, I don't know. Oh, boy. |
| 0:39.0 | This is going to be a great episode. |
| 0:52.6 | This is not a science podcast, everyone. It's a pregnancy and parenting podcast. And speaking of pregnancy and parenting, I'd love to hear, well, first of all, I'd be very surprised to hear that you have pregnancy news. But I think you probably have some parenting stuff to check it on. |
| 1:12.0 | Oh, you're correct about that. So this week was the week leading up to Memorial Day weekend, which is a nice fun, three-day weekend. And it's the second to last week of school for my girls. They end kind of early. And so lots of like fun activities going on at school to just kind of celebrate the end of the year. And Steve and I sent out an invitation to you guys and some other friends like come over for Memorial Day barbecue. |
| 1:19.0 | Like let's celebrate and just have fun summer vibes. |
| 1:22.8 | Well, that all came to a grinding halt when my dear little CeC spiked a 102 fever, which didn't go away |
| 1:32.9 | for about six days. |
| 1:35.7 | She gets the worst fevers. |
| 1:38.9 | She really just, they last forever. |
| 1:41.3 | Poor thing. |
| 1:42.3 | Well, I take her to the doctor and find out girl has pneumonia, |
| 1:45.8 | walking variety, which is good, the atypical. It's not as severe. But I was like, all right, |
| 1:53.3 | well, that explains why it wasn't getting any better. But the real complicating factor there is that |
| 1:58.8 | now we have to give her medication to help her fight the pneumonia. |
| 2:03.9 | And if you recall, my past experiences with CCN medication, it's usually a very difficult situation. |
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