Ep. 373: Mom Jealousy
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In Part 2 of “Checkin’ the Inbox,” Shanna and Laura answer more listener questions about everything from embryo storage to family traditions, to friend jealousy and more! Also, Laura reports on how her family managed a week without childcare after her kids finished preschool and camp for the summer, and Shanna talks about going to a mom meetup in an unexpected place. 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 6.5 years old and 4 years old.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-How do you manage work and childcare during the summer when your kids are out of school?
-Managing work-life balance as a mom
-Finding ways to connect with other parents at work
-Did Shanna ever make a decision about what to do with her embryos?
-Our favorite off-the-radar family traditions
-Jealousy vs. FOMO with your adult friends
-Some of our favorite TV shows of 2025
-An excellent audiobook that Laura recommends
Products, links, resources mentioned in this episode:
-Menchies - The oft-mentioned frozen yogurt shop that Shanna and her kids love
-"Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings" by Laura Markham
-"Dead Flowers" by J.M. Petrick
Past BFP episodes mentioned in this episode:
-Ep. 37 (For the first episode where Shanna talks about being unsure what to do with her frozen embryos)
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. |
| 0:05.0 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.5 | We have our special segment, check in the inbox, where we find out if Laura and I have been seething with jealousy, and we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:17.0 | Let's get started. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 373. Hello, Laura. Hi, Shana. Hi, hi, hi. Why don't you kick us off here in this episode and tell us what you've been up to this week. Well, this week was the first week where both kids were off school in their official summer vacation. |
| 0:38.9 | Oggie's camp was ended and Sebastian's preschool, as I mentioned in the last episode, is done |
| 0:44.2 | forever. |
| 0:45.2 | Yep. |
| 0:45.5 | And we didn't have any camps or anything for them set up because Corey and I both didn't |
| 0:51.3 | really have much on our work schedules for this week. So we're like, |
| 0:55.2 | you know what? We are just going to do Mommy Daddy Camp and just do fun things around the city. |
| 1:01.4 | The good news is also that my mom came into town this week. She to have this whole plan where |
| 1:07.2 | next week we're going to Portland. So she came into town a week early. So it's like she could help with the kids this week. And then next week we're going to Portland. So she came into town a week early so it's like she could help with the kids this week and then next week we're going to be in Portland. So that kind of takes care of a decent chunk of time, right? Like where it's not just me and Corey trying to juggle work and kids, which Shauna, as I've mentioned pretty much a million times, anytime I think I don't have much on my work schedule and I can just take care of the kids. |
| 1:30.1 | What tends to happen when I do that? |
| 1:35.2 | Surprise deadlines that you need to rush to finish the last minute? |
| 1:39.0 | Yep, that's exactly what happened this week. I should know better by now. |
| 1:47.0 | So, yeah, I got like a surprise site build, which I'm happy about because it's more income and all that stuff. But I was like, ah, shit, got to |
| 1:52.0 | figure out something to do with these kids. So we all juggled them. It was like passing them off to my |
| 1:56.7 | mom and then to Corey and then back to me. And we just had a kind of week of hanging out at home |
| 2:01.7 | and running off to parks and that sort of thing. But the one event I wanted to talk about was that |
| 2:07.8 | my mom booked us a resort pass for Sunday afternoon. Okay. I've been wanting to try that. |
| 2:15.9 | Yeah. I had never tried one either. |
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