Ep. 400: 400th Episode: You Asked, We Answered
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Laura and Shanna celebrate their 400th episode of "Big Fat Positive" with a very special "Checkin' the Inbox" segment, in which they answer listener questions sent in via voice memo! They dive into the topics of baby naming, deciding whether to have a second child, the parenting “rules” they swore they’d never break and more! Also, Shanna recaps Elle’s 10th birthday celebrations, and Laura shares a sweet sibling moment during Sebastian’s 5th birthday trip. Finally, the moms wrap up with their BFPs and BFNs for the week, including a party activity that will excite all your guests and an ingenious way to brush up on your foreign-language skills during your kids' bedtime. Shanna’s kids are 10 and 7 years old, and Laura’s kids are 7 and 5 years old.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Celebrating 400 episodes of Big Fat Positive
- Big birthday milestones
- How the podcast has changed our lives
- Handling the decision about going from having more than one child
- Baby names we love
- Fun ideas for your kids' birthday parties
- Graphic novels to read with your kids
- A unique idea for brushing up on your foreign-language skills
Products, links, resources mentioned in this episode:
- Speakpipe - Leave us a voice message!
- Doc Martens Girls' Sparkly Black Boots
- Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland
- "The Ghost Ship That Didn't Carry Us" by Cheryl Strayed
- Clawsome claw machine rentals for events
- "Ghosts" by Raina Telgemeier
- "Fantasmas" by Raina Telgemeier
Past BFP episodes mentioned in this episode:
- Ep. 399 - Where Shanna talks about the name Elara Jane
- Ep. 396 - Where Laura surprises Auggie with a birthday trip to Disneyland
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.0 | It's our 400th weekly episode. |
| 0:07.0 | So this week we're going to do our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:10.0 | For our special segment, we have a very special 400th episode check in the inbox where we answer questions sent in by you, our listeners, all via voice memo. |
| 0:19.0 | And we answer some questions you've never heard its answer before |
| 0:21.7 | and we close with our weekly BFPs or BFNs. |
| 0:24.8 | For the 400th time, let's get started. |
| 0:29.6 | Hello, hello everyone and welcome to episode 400 of the Big Fat Positive podcast. Hi, Shana. Hi. I am stoked about this episode. I can't |
| 0:44.0 | believe it's already here. And I think we should get right to it. What do you think? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's dive in. |
| 0:49.8 | Okay, it's a very special episode, of course, but it's also a regular episode of BFP. We want to stick with our format because we want to bring you all the consistency that you have come to cherish to love over the past 400 episodes. So, Shauna, let's start with your check-ins for the 400th time. What did you do this week? I celebrated my daughter's 10th birthday. |
| 1:14.3 | What? I mean, how fitting for a 400th episode to celebrate Elle's 10th birthday? Oh my gosh. |
| 1:20.7 | Yes. It just still blows my mind that she was two when we started this podcast, not even two and a half yet, two. |
| 1:27.5 | And now she's 10. |
| 1:29.0 | So, whoa. |
| 1:30.0 | Whoa. |
| 1:30.6 | Whoa. |
| 1:31.0 | She's a big kid. |
| 1:34.0 | And she's so cool. |
| 1:35.5 | The grandmas came into town and on her actual birthday, she went to school. |
| 1:39.0 | We went out to dinner together. |
| 1:40.9 | And she dressed up in this very cool outfit. You know, she's very tween, a very tween |
| 1:48.6 | sleigh batty mode. And she was wearing her black jeans with like studs down the sides. She had |
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