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Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)

Ep. 403: Tooth Talk, Jump Scares and FOMO

Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)

Laura Birek, Shanna Micko

Parenting, Comedy, Kids & Family

4.7 • 531 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In the special segment "OMG I'm Freaking Out!," Shanna and Laura reveal the current parenting dilemmas that have their hair standing on end, including an unexpected sight on Shanna’s school communication app and a travel conundrum that is stressing Laura out. Also, Laura reports on her son’s back-to-back tooth loss that has left him with a double gap, and Shanna checks in on her daughter’s surprising trip to the dentist to get her cavities filled. Finally, the moms share their BFPs and BFNs for the week, including a fun kids craft and a trip to Vegas. Shanna’s kids are 7 and 10 years old, and Laura’s kids are 7 years old and 5 years old.


Topics discussed in this episode:

  • What to do when your kid loses a tooth right before bed
  • What happens when your kid loses a tooth at school
  • When your child needs to get cavities filled
  • Seeing something confusing and unsettling on your school communication app
  • Deciding whether to travel solo or with your family
  • The joy of your child expressing interest in something you love
  • Taking a trip to Las Vegas


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins.

0:07.6

We have our special segment, OMG, I'm freaking out, where we find out what gave me a jump scare and why Laura's feeling worried about going on an adventure.

0:16.3

And we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. Let's get started.

0:22.2

Hello and howdy everyone. Welcome to episode 4003. Hi, Laura. Hi, Shauna. Hi. Why don't you

0:29.8

do as you do every episode and start us off with your check-in? Well, I guess every other episode,

0:34.5

you start us off with your check-in. It's true. But why don't you get into it?

0:38.4

Okay.

0:39.0

So you may recall that in the last episode, I talked about how our pediatrician revealed in front of Sebastian that there was such a thing as a ear tube fairy.

0:49.1

And necessitated the rapid acquisition of money for this eartube ferry and how jealous

0:59.1

Augie was that Sebastian got a visit from the ear tube fairy.

1:02.9

Yeah.

1:03.7

So what happened?

1:04.9

Well, not to be outdone, Augie really stepped it up this week because he had two extremely wiggly front teeth in the top,

1:15.1

like his top front teeth, were hanging on by a thread.

1:19.6

And one of them was even kind of turning gray.

1:22.6

Like that was a little not good for me.

1:25.1

Yeah.

1:25.6

But he really, you know, stepped up this week and decided it was time for them to be gone

1:31.1

and was wiggling them until they both fell out within 24 hours.

1:36.0

Ha ha ha ha.

1:38.1

Oh, double gap.

1:40.3

Double gap.

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