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Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)

Ep. 394: Advocating for Your Child at the Doctor

Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)

Laura Birek, Shanna Micko

Parenting, Comedy, Kids & Family

4.7 • 531 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In the special segment "Never Have I Ever: Parenting Edition," Laura and Shanna reveal the unexpected things they've never done before having kids, including a desperate attempt to complete a puzzle in inclement weather and a disturbing doctor's appointment that ended in tears. Also, Shanna talks about her attempts to have a low-key Christmas, and Laura reports on her family's festive week of ice dancing and dreidel spinning. Finally, they share their BFPs or BFNs for the week. Shanna's kids are 7 and 9.5 years old, and Laura’s kids are 6.5 years old and 4.5 years old.


Topics discussed in this episode:

  • Last-minute holiday decorating and keeping expectations low
  • A kid getting sick right before Christmas and deciding when to go to urgent care
  • Taking your kids to festive holiday events
  • Celebrating Hanukkah with friends
  • When you realize you are doing something wacky and unreasonable as a parent
  • Tough doctor visits with kids
  • Navigating fear, consent and advocating for your child in a medical setting
  • How kids misunderstand medical “threats” and why wording matters
  • A funny public moment involving a kids’ character and an unexpected song choice
  • Volunteering at your kid's school and reading a funny picture book to your kid's class
  • A parenting win: getting your kid re-engaged in an extracurricular activity


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Past BFP episodes mentioned in this episode:

  • Ep. 379 - (Shanna talks about going to the Museum of Illusions)
  • Ep. 358 - (Laura talks about Auggie quitting parkour and starting jiu-jitsu)


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura.

0:05.0

This week we have our weekly check-ins.

0:07.5

We have our special segment, Never Have I Ever,

0:10.0

where you find out what had me standing out in the rain and had Shauna acting out a character.

0:14.7

And we close with our BFPs and BFNs for the week.

0:17.3

Let's get started.

0:19.9

Hello everyone and welcome to episode 394. Hi, Shana. Hello.

0:26.2

Hello, hello. All right, let's hear your check-in for this week. Okay, here is my check-in for the week.

0:33.0

All right, so, you know, we had just gone back from Phoenix for our trip for Poppops Memorial.

0:39.0

And I spent the first part of the week just kind of just coming down from all the activity in hubbub from the last couple weeks.

0:46.7

Christmas is coming up, but I just wasn't ready to dive into decorating, shopping, wrapping, none of that yet.

0:53.0

But finally, as the weekend approached,

0:56.1

I was like, we got to do this. And so on December 20th, five days before Christmas, probably the

1:01.9

latest I've ever done it my life, we finally busted everything out and got decorated for the season.

1:08.3

I know that the outdoor decorations is something that's important to you, too.

1:12.7

You mentioned that in a previous episode, how you guys didn't really do a lot of outdoor

1:16.3

decorations growing up.

1:17.5

So did you get a bunch of lights up?

1:19.1

Did you go full Griswold?

1:21.9

I did not go Griswold.

1:24.7

I did kind of bare minimum.

1:27.4

I pulled out our inflatables and plugged them in.

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