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Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)

Ep. 51: Herding Cats and Creating “Yes” Spaces

Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)

Laura Birek, Shanna Micko

Parenting, Comedy, Kids & Family

4.7531 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s special segment “Checkin’ the Inbox,” Laura and Shanna answer listener questions about room sharing with cats and working from home with a baby. Also, Shanna talks about introducing formula into her baby’s diet and creating a “Yes” space for her increasingly mobile daughter, and Laura describes her first out-of-town trip with her son. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s baby is 23 weeks old, and Laura’s baby is 19 weeks old. | This episode's show notes - https://bigfatpositivepodcast.com/ep-51/ | 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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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. This week on the show, we have our weekly check-ins.

0:06.6

We have our special segment, check in the inbox, where we try to herd cats and create some yes

0:11.2

spaces, and we have our BFPs and BFNs for the week. Let's get to it. Hey, everyone. Welcome to

0:17.5

Episode 51 of Big Fat Positive. Hello, Shana.

0:21.9

Hi.

0:23.0

How are you doing?

0:24.1

What's going on with you this week?

0:24.8

How old is your baby?

0:25.4

Tell me everything.

0:26.8

I'm good.

0:31.1

She is 23 weeks old, which is about five and a half months.

0:35.8

And oh my God, she is moving like crazy.

0:38.6

I mean, I don't know if I've talked about it before, but she's always seems super motivated to like try to move and crawl and get stuff, but she's just been too little

0:43.3

on tummy time. So she gets pissed and screams and crap. So I think we're finally seen some progress.

0:49.1

She is like rolling all over the place. And it's a little tricky like when I'm working, because, because I'll be, like, involved in something and I'll look down and she's, like, rolled over by my rat's nest of, like, charging cables. I'm like, no, no, no. So I've got to break out my, I have this big, like, baby gate thing that I use with my first baby. And I create like a big yes space that she can

1:12.8

really crawl and move and roll. And I know she's safe in there. And so I've got to bust that out.

1:17.4

Right now she uses the pack and play, you know, for that kind of situation, like a yes space,

1:21.8

like a safe space where I know she's okay and I can walk out of the room. And it's just too small

1:26.9

for her now. I can see she wants

1:28.5

to move. Is yes space like a rye thing? Yeah, yeah. So it's a rye thing. It's Janet Lansbury

1:35.5

talks about it a lot and has some great articles on it. It's basically a space where you know

1:41.0

that I think she says something like if God forbid you had to go out of the house for a few hours, like, for something, you were locked out of the house, let's say.

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