Ep. 413: Failing the Sniff Test
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment “Mom Confessions,” Laura and Shanna share the embarrassing or hilarious parenting experiences they have had recently, including an interaction with an unsuspecting stranger, an incident with a curious cat and more. Also, Laura celebrates her 10th wedding anniversary with an out-of-the-ordinary trip, and Shanna recaps a nail-biting end to her 7-year-old's softball season. Finally, the moms share their BFPs and BFNs for the week, including a piece of office equipment that had to be rationed like screen time. 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:
• Taking your first overnight trip as a couple after having kids
• Self-driving cars: would you try a Waymo?
• When your child is facing a big moment and you're a nervous wreck
• Kids with ADHD and visual tracking challenges in sports
• Cats and kids: an unpredictable combination
• Regulating your own emotions on a bad parenting day
• Sleep disruption from enlarged adenoids in kids
• Electric pencil sharpeners: a surprisingly divisive household item
• Face painting at kids' sports events
Products, links, resources mentioned in this episode:
• The Line LA - Hotel that Laura and Corey went to for their anniversary
• Waymo - Self-driving cars
• Hard Fork - podcast that radicalized Laura on self-driving cars
• Gwen - Restaurant that Laura and Corey went to for anniversary dinner
• Martin Riese - Water sommelier
• "Mom" by Meghan Trainor - Cece's walkup song
• "Grumpy Monkey" - Kid's book Shanna mentions
• Robot Electric Pencil Sharpener
• Face Paint Pens (Jim & Gloria)
Past BFP episodes mentioned in this episode:
• Ep. 407 - Where Shanna first talked about the Savannah Bananas San Diego trip
• Ep. 410 - Where Laura first discussed Sebastian's ENT follow-up and upcoming ear tube surgery
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| 0:41.3 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shana and Laura. |
| 0:44.0 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:46.6 | We have our special segment, Mom Confessions, |
| 0:49.1 | where we disclose our brushes with unsuspecting strangers and curious cats. |
| 0:53.9 | And we wrap it up with our weekly |
| 0:55.5 | BFPs and BFMs. Let's get started. Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 413. Hi, Laura. |
| 1:04.5 | Hi, Shauna. Hi. Why don't you kick us off with your check-in for the week? I have a pretty epic |
| 1:10.2 | check-in that's been |
| 1:11.5 | seven years in the making. Oh, oh my word. Okay. Well, I guess technically it's been 10 |
| 1:18.2 | years in the making. So 10 years ago, Corey and I got married. Congratulations. Thank you, |
| 1:27.1 | thank you. We're actually a few days out still from our actual anniversary, but it falls on a Thursday this year. So we decided to celebrate beforehand. And I had floated the idea to Corey a few months ago that maybe we should like go away somewhere, just the two of us. |
| 1:44.9 | Yes. You know, it's our 10th anniversary. Just the two of us. Yes. |
| 1:48.8 | You know, it's our 10th anniversary. It's kind of a big deal, right? |
| 1:54.4 | And I feel like this is not a revolutionary idea. Everyone out there is probably like, yeah, |
| 1:58.3 | that seems like a totally normal, reasonable thing to do for your 10th anniversary. |
| 2:02.4 | But for us, it was a bit of a stretch because it would have been the first time that both of us combined would have spent the night away from the kids. |
| 2:08.6 | Okay. When we've traveled, it's always been one of us traveling and the other one staying home |
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