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Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)

Ep. 399: Breaking Up With Your Mom Group

Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)

Laura Birek, Shanna Micko

Parenting, Comedy, Kids & Family

4.7 • 531 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In the special segment “Internet Insanity,” Shanna and Laura share the wild and wacky content they've found online recently, including a baby name that has risen to fame for a surprising reason and a mom-group breakup of epic proportions. Also, Laura shares how a Percy Jackson obsession turned into a spontaneous after-school trip with her kids, and Shanna talks about the device that enabled her 9-year-old to arrange her own play date. Finally, the moms share their BFPs and BFNs for the week, including family outings at two Los Angeles landmarks, one beautiful and one bizarre. Shanna’s kids are 7 and 9.5 years old, and Laura’s kids are 7 years old and 4.5 years old.


Topics discussed in this episode:

  • A spontaneous after-school adventure with your kids
  • When your kid starts planning their own social life
  • Giving your child a “just enough” phone for safety and texting friends
  • 2025's name of the year and what it says about baby naming trends
  • Toxic mom-group drama, celebrity edition
  • Keeping longtime friendships going as parents
  • Fun, unusual day trips around Los Angeles with kids


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura.

0:05.6

On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins.

0:08.1

We have our special segment, Internet Insanity, where we dig into toxic mom groups and unusual baby names.

0:15.5

And we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFMs.

0:18.6

Let's get started.

0:25.1

Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 399.

0:34.6

What? What? Whoa, we're so close to 400. I'd say we're mere seven days away from episode 400.

0:56.0

So close. All right. Well, let's kick off this last episode in our 300s with your check-in, Laura. What's been going on with you all this week? Okay, I'm going to report on something that happened due to a random and spontaneous chain of events. Okay. So on Tuesday this week, I was responsible for picking up both boys from school. And as I mentioned,

1:02.7

we now have a good system where Augie gets to stay an hour past the first bell so I can pick him up and then go straight to get Sebastian from his preschool. And Corey was busy. So I was like,

1:07.5

I got the kids and maybe I'll take them to a park or something, do something,

1:29.7

you know, active and outdoors, right? So I pick up Augie, and usually what happens is I say, let's go to a park and say, I want to go to a park, I want to go home, I just wonder what she'll be. You know, he's full on, you know, seven going on 17, right? And I have to convince him, blah, blah, I pick him up, we go through that whole rigmarole.

1:30.9

Augie, let's go to a park.

1:29.0

Oh, my God. on 17, right? And I have to convince him, blah, blah, blah. I pick him up. We go through that whole rigmarole. Augie, let's go to a park. I don't want to go to a park. I don't want to. And like, okay, well, we'll talk about it. We'll figure it out. And as we're driving to go get Sebastian, he's like, I want to listen to something. I was like, okay, great. What do you want to listen to? He's like, Jackson, the Percy Jackson soundtrack. And this is a new

1:45.2

favorite of ours is the soundtrack from the Percy Jackson series. Have you watched any of that?

1:50.8

Nope. It's great. It's really good. I love it. It's like actually very fun. The first season

1:56.4

has Jason Manzukas, for example. Oh, amazing. Okay, I'm sold. Yeah, there you go. This is an animated

2:03.1

kid series, I take it? No, it's live action. Oh. It's based on the incredibly popular

2:08.7

Percy Jackson series that is all about, like, you know, bringing Greek and Roman mythology into

2:15.2

modern day life. And the premise is that Percy Jackson is a half

2:19.3

blood, right? He's a demigod. And to be fair, I haven't paid very close attention to the plot,

2:25.1

but the basic thing is like Percy Jackson starts going on like ancient Greek and Roman mythology

2:31.0

adventures, right? And yeah, it is cool. And it's great production value. It's just

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