Ep. 48: Losing Sleep: Postpartum Insomnia and Rock Concerts
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Laura discusses her first “girls’ night out” since having her baby, and Shanna talks about her bouts of postpartum insomnia. Also, in the segment “Today I Learned,” the new moms share interesting info they’ve recently learned about birth control and prenatal care. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s baby is 20 weeks old, and Laura’s baby is 16 weeks old.| This episode's show notes - https://bigfatpositivepodcast.com/ep-48/ | 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. |
| 0:04.8 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.6 | We have our special segment called Today I Learned, where the Pope meets Amp Flo, and we wrap |
| 0:12.9 | things up with our big-fat positives and big-fat negatives. |
| 0:15.9 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:17.1 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:19.3 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:20.3 | Hi, Laura. Hi, Shana. Hi. Let's start with our weekly check-ins. How old is your baby and what is going on? |
| 0:27.6 | My baby is 16 weeks old. And there's a bunch of stuff going on this week. Oh, tell me at all. |
| 0:35.4 | So the first thing is he rolled over from back to front. Finally. |
| 0:42.5 | Yeah. That was exciting. It's still very labored. It's not like a very easy little like, |
| 0:49.3 | whoop, I'm over. It takes a good couple minutes to really get all the way over, but he does it independently, |
| 0:55.0 | so it's good. That's so cute. That was really exciting and very cute, and he's happy he loves |
| 1:00.1 | tummy time, so I think he likes being able to get himself into tummy time. Hold up. That sounds rare |
| 1:06.3 | to me. I feel like most babies hate tummy time. Your guy likes it? Yes, I don't know what I did. I mean, he did not like it at the very beginning. He found it frustrating. But at some point, he got even better head control. And gosh, he just has been loving it for the past couple months. Like, we put him in tummy time. He laughs. And he like... The past couple months, he's only three months old. |
| 1:28.7 | I mean, this is most of his life here. That's true. I guess, you know, like, it was about the first month he hated it. And then when he was kind of able to get a little bit more of his chest up, and you know what it was? I don't know. I'm like giving him all the credit when we deserve some credit, which is I got him, I got I'm a cute little mirror. |
| 1:44.4 | Did we talk about this? |
| 1:45.8 | It's like a a cute little mirror. Did we talk about this? |
| 1:45.8 | It's like a little foldable mirror that is like, you know, shatterproof. It's like a plastic mirror. |
| 1:51.7 | And it has these little toys. There's like a little like bumblebee and a little like, I don't know what, like black and white dragonfly. |
| 1:57.7 | It has like little like crinkly paper and a little ball that you can like swipe at |
| 2:01.9 | that makes a noise. And ever since we got the mirror, maybe he's a narcissist. I don't know. He like |
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