Ep. 40: Baby Name Shame and Nursing No-No’s
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Shanna and Laura are dissed, shamed and stunned in this week’s special segment, “They Said What?!”, in which the new moms recount shocking, hilarious or offensive things people have said to them lately. Also, Laura reports on her baby’s two-month vaccinations, and Shanna talks about how her baby’s perfectly constructed sleep environment is turned on its head. Finally, the new moms reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s baby is 12 weeks old, and Laura’s baby is eight weeks old.| This episode's show notes - https://bigfatpositivepodcast.com/ep-40/ | Get social - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bfppodcast/ | Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/bigfatpositivepodcast/ | Email - contact@bigfatpositivepodcast.com | Our mom-tested ultimate baby registry list - https://bigfatpositivepodcast.com/registry/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shana and Laura. |
| 0:05.2 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.8 | We have a special segment called They Said What, where Shana is taken to task for doing something we probably all love to do. |
| 0:15.1 | And we wrap things up with our BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:18.1 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:20.3 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shana and Laura. |
| 0:23.9 | Hello. Hello. This is episode 40. |
| 0:27.4 | Laura, we made it full term. Our podcast is a full term baby. Oh my gosh. Our podcast must be so |
| 0:32.7 | uncomfortable right now. What's our, what's our podcast going to give birth to? Uh, I'm not feeling clever today. |
| 0:45.8 | Shauna, let me ask you, what is our podcast? Podcast going to give birth to. Fame and fortune. |
| 0:51.6 | Good answer. I was going to see like an MP3 or something. I don't know. |
| 0:57.2 | Anyway, we're going to start with our check-ins as usual. Laura, why don't you start us off? |
| 1:02.1 | So my baby is eight weeks. He's two months. And he is doing great. He is starting to sleep better. It's so funny to me. Yeah. He's getting about four, he's consistently getting four hours stretches a night and sometimes it goes up to about five, a little over five. So I know like in theory he could could be sleeping more, but also in theory he could be sleeping a lot less. So I'm just sort of, I'm just enjoying that he wakes up once a |
| 1:29.1 | night. Like, that's great. That's, that's fine. Yeah. He'll wake up once a night and I'll feed him and it'll |
| 1:35.1 | be fine. And it's amazing how just that little bit of a difference makes so much of a difference in |
| 1:41.3 | my, like, daily mood and how I feel feel like how much I feel like I can get |
| 1:45.5 | stuff done. |
| 1:47.1 | Also helping with getting stuff done is that my mom's back in town for this week, |
| 1:50.8 | staying across the street again, which is awesome. |
| 1:53.5 | So she's been helping me a lot. |
| 1:55.4 | She'll just come over and hold the baby while I like run errands. |
| 1:59.7 | She let me go. |
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