Ep. 366: More of Our Best Stories, Tips
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In part two of their 365th episode celebration, Laura and Shanna share more best-of moments from the Big Fat Positive podcast through the years, including their favorite deep cuts from the show, more listener-favorite stories, Laura's most popular (and tear-inducing) check in, one of the best parenting tips Shanna has ever shared, and more! Also, Shanna reports on taking a family trip to San Francisco, and Laura talks about doing a sleep study to check for sleep apnea. Finally, the moms share their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna's kids are 6.5 and 9 years old, and Laura’s kids are 6 years old and 4 years old.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Taking a family vacation to Northern California
-Things to do in San Francisco with kids
-Doing a sleep study to check for sleep apnea
-The best stories from the Big Fat Positive podcast, according to listeners
-Useful tips and tricks that have been shared on the BFP podcast, according to listeners
-Bloopers and outtakes from previous episodes
-Using a home-exchange community to travel on a budget
-Chaperoning a kindergarten field trip to the Science Center
Products, links, and resources mentioned in this episode:
-My Breast Friend nursing pillow
-The Happy Song by Imogen Heap
-Kindred Home Exchange (using Shanna and Steve's referral code STE.YAG)
Past BFP episodes mentioned in this episode:
-Ep. 362 (For Shanna's soccer-ball-to-the-face story)
-Ep. 44 (For Laura's tooth-hunt lunch story )
-Ep. 135 (For Shanna's free sandbox story)
-Ep. 220 (For the story of Shanna's daughter secretly placing an order through Alexa)
-Ep. 139 (For Laura's story of Sebastian's birth)
-Ep. 29 (For Shanna's first episode after Cece's birth)
-Ep. 92 (For Shanna's tip about playing "The Happy Song" for your baby)
This episode's full show notes can be found here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shana and Laura. |
| 0:05.2 | This week we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.4 | We have our special segment, which is part two of our 365 retrospective about the BFP podcast, |
| 0:14.0 | where we read some more of your listener comments about their favorite episodes. |
| 0:17.8 | Shana and I reveal the deep cuts that we love from each other's stories, |
| 0:21.7 | and we listen back to some of our favorite sentimental moments from the podcast, and we close |
| 0:26.9 | with our BFPs and BFNs for the week. Let's get to it. Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode |
| 0:32.8 | 366. Hi, Shana. Hey. Hey, hey, let's get right to it. Tell me about your week. Well, this was a week because my family took a little vacation. |
| 0:45.4 | Oh, that's right. You were going up north. You were northbound. Yes, I was. Now, I knew that we had this week off for the family, right, before summer camp starts. And so I was like dreaming for a while. Like, what should we do? And I'm picturing like going to an all-inclusive resort in Mexico and just lying on the beach while my kids do kids club. I had all of these plans. And then I just could never get around to making the plan. And then finally, |
| 1:14.2 | like a week before, it's like, we got to do something. And Steve was like, well, why don't we go up to |
| 1:17.5 | San Francisco? You know, my uncles are up there, my cousins are up there, and we can explore the city. |
| 1:23.4 | And I was like, but that's not relaxing on the beach in a tropical place. |
| 1:29.9 | But, you know, I don't know. |
| 1:31.0 | It just felt like the right choice. |
| 1:32.8 | Let's go see some family and have, you know, a little adventure. |
| 1:36.4 | So at first, I was not too thrilled about this idea, to be honest with you. |
| 1:41.0 | So Steve did mostly planning. |
| 1:42.8 | It was really nice. |
| 1:43.7 | He booked the tickets. He booked the |
| 1:45.3 | place to stay. And we flew on up to San Francisco and spent a week in the city. I get your |
| 1:54.5 | disappointment because as lovely as San Francisco is, it's not like a warm tropical beach vacation. |
| 2:02.2 | Yes. It's a different vibe. |
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