Ep. 49: Express Yourself: Hand Pumping and Night Crying
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Shanna and Laura discuss sleep training, and Shanna describes her plan for getting her baby to sleep through the night. Laura talks about her baby’s four-month checkup and gives an update about his sleep regression. Also, in the special segment “Never Have I Ever - Parenting Edition,” the new moms share hilarious incidents they never thought they would experience until they became parents. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s baby is 21 weeks old, and Laura’s baby is 17 weeks old.| This episode's show notes - https://bigfatpositivepodcast.com/ep-49/ | 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. |
| 0:04.6 | This week we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:06.6 | We have our special segment, Never Have I Ever, Parenting Edition, where Shauna and Laura do |
| 0:11.4 | strange things in dark places. |
| 0:14.0 | And we do our BFPs and BFNs for the week. |
| 0:16.8 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:19.2 | Hey, everyone, welcome to the show. This is episode 49. Shana, hello. Hi. How are you doing? What's going on with you? How old is your baby? Tell me everything. Oh, my gosh. Okay. So, Cece is 21 weeks old now. Ready to drink? Lots of breastmen. What? Oh, I thought you were asking me if I was ready to drink. |
| 0:39.8 | I was like, yeah, sure, why not? At any given point in the day, yes. |
| 0:46.7 | Anywho, okay, so as I mentioned last week, I think I started work. I've been feeling extremely tired, waking up a lot at night, |
| 0:56.3 | and I am now very determined to get my baby to sleep through the night. Like, I'm on a mission. |
| 1:04.2 | I didn't have to do this with my first, as you know, because she just magically slept through |
| 1:08.0 | the night by herself. At six weeks. Yeah. |
| 1:11.4 | I just, I got to keep bringing that up because it's fucking crazy. |
| 1:16.1 | Crazy. |
| 1:16.8 | It's so crazy. |
| 1:17.9 | It like did not feel crazy at the time. |
| 1:19.6 | I was just like, baby sleep. |
| 1:21.1 | And now in hindsight, of course, I'm like, oh, my God. |
| 1:24.7 | That was, yeah, definite unicorn baby. |
| 1:26.8 | This is definitely different. So I've been reading |
| 1:30.4 | a lot of different books, a lot of different sleep training resources. Definitely going the |
| 1:37.0 | sleep training route, nothing against it. Can you tell us, so tell us a little bit about what |
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