Ep. 42: A Birth Ritual That’s Totally “Nuts"
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment, “Today I Learned,” Laura and Shanna share some surprising pregnancy- and baby-related things they have learned recently, including a birth ritual that may leave some fathers-to-be clutching their family jewels. Also, Laura reports on her efforts to wean her baby from the SNOO Smart Sleeper bassinet, and Shanna discusses her first date night with her husband since she gave birth. Finally, the new moms reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s baby is 14 weeks old, and Laura’s baby is 10 weeks old. | This episode's show notes - https://bigfatpositivepodcast.com/ep-42/ | 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 Shauna and Laura. On this week's episode, we have our weekly |
| 0:06.6 | check-ins. We have a special segment called Today I Learned, where Shauna talks about a birthing |
| 0:11.3 | practice that's a little bit nuts, and we wrap things up with our BFPs and BFNs. Let's get started. |
| 0:19.2 | Hey, everybody, welcome to episode 42. Hello. Hi, hi, Laura. You want to kick it off with our |
| 0:26.1 | weekly check-in? Sure. So my baby is 10 weeks old this week. Okay. Which is very exciting. He seems like |
| 0:33.7 | such a big boy. Yeah, he is getting bigger. I know. Even though he's real small still, |
| 0:41.2 | he's still like 10th percentile on the weight chart. But, you know, he's my big boy. So let's see. |
| 0:47.7 | The main thing I want to talk about this week is that we are trying to go on weaning mode on the snoo. |
| 0:54.9 | Okay. |
| 0:55.5 | Or I should say past tense. |
| 0:56.7 | We tried to go on weaning mode on the snoo. |
| 0:59.6 | What is weaning mode on the snoo for people who don't know? |
| 1:02.6 | So let's start from the very beginning. |
| 1:04.9 | For those who don't know what the snoo is, it's like this robot crib that gently rocks your baby side to side all night in the crib. |
| 1:12.4 | And then if your baby cries, it'll trigger it to like play white noise louder and wiggle your baby harder to try to soothe it to go back to sleep. |
| 1:20.6 | So you don't have to wake up and soothe your baby. |
| 1:22.7 | And Sean and I both love our robot cribs. |
| 1:25.5 | We're both converts to the snoo. |
| 1:31.0 | And we had talked on a previous episode about how Shauna you had that big power outage, right? Yes. Freaked you out because |
| 1:36.4 | the snoo stopped working. It stopped cold. But your baby, Cece, did fine, right? She didn't even |
| 1:43.5 | need the rocking. No, it was, or the white noise. |
| 1:46.8 | Like she did, well, I put white noise on my phone, but she did fine, yes. Yeah. So that inspired me to try to put on weaning mode, |
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