Ep. 46: How to Calm a Crying Baby
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This week, Laura gives an update on her baby’s naps, and Shanna reveals some surprising news about her baby’s childcare. Also, Laura and Shanna chat with pediatrician Dr. Robert Hamilton, author of the book “Seven Secrets of the Newborn,” about how to quickly calm a crying baby and more. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s baby is 18 weeks old, and Laura’s baby is 14 weeks old.
*This interview was recorded in April 2019, over a year before Dr. Hamilton’s involvement in America’s Frontline Doctors, and we do not endorse or support that group.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.1 | This week we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.8 | We have a special interview with Dr. Robert Hamilton, the inventor of the Hamilton Hold, |
| 0:12.9 | which was a viral YouTube sensation, and the author of the book Seven Secrets of the Newborn. |
| 0:18.7 | We wrap things up with our BFPs and BFNs. Let's get started. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the show. This is episode 46. Hello. Laura. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. How are you doing? Give us your weekly check-in. How old's your baby? My baby is 14 weeks old. |
| 0:38.9 | Getting big. Yeah. And so if you recall last week, I shared my, I think it was my BFP, which was stringing two |
| 0:47.7 | nap cycles together. Oh yeah, that golden nugget. Good stuff. Yeah, well, that all went to shit this week. |
| 0:54.1 | What? No, you gave us all hope last |
| 0:57.4 | week, Laura. I gave myself. I have no idea. Like, it worked great for a week, solid. And then |
| 1:04.4 | stopped working. It just stopped working. He's like, mom, I'm going to fuck with you because I'm a baby and |
| 1:09.3 | that's what I do. Pretty much. |
| 1:10.9 | I was so, oh, there was one day where I was just trying to get him to go back to sleep and he wasn't |
| 1:18.5 | doing it. |
| 1:19.0 | I thought I was going to start crying only and not because there was anything wrong, but just |
| 1:23.5 | like he was crying. |
| 1:25.3 | I just really was emotionally attached to having another 40 minutes to |
| 1:30.2 | myself, you know? I like that that's the thing that was like putting you over the emotional edge. |
| 1:35.6 | It was because I was like, I wanted, like I had stuff to do. You know, up to that point I'd been like |
| 1:40.7 | pumping and like trying to just like eat breakfast really quickly. And like I didn't have me time. And I was like, okay, I'm going to have 40 minutes of me time. |
| 1:48.1 | Like probably would mean like doing my own laundry. Real exciting stuff. But I was like really |
| 1:53.9 | excited to do it. And then he just would not go back to sleep. I had to take some really deep |
| 1:58.1 | like cleansing breaths. And yeah. So anyway, we're back to the saga of the no-napping baby. He naps for 40 minutes max at a time. And I just, I don't know what to do. So it's so frustrating. And it's frustrating, too, because it's like they don't get enough sleep. So then they're, at least my baby, and she's cranky after that. |
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