Ep. 56: Tiny Babies, Mom Dreams and Getting Nap Trapped
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, “Today I Learned,” Shanna and Laura discuss tiny babies and thirst while breastfeeding. Also, Shanna talks about her recent parenting nightmare, and Laura gives an update on her sleep-training journey using the Taking Cara Babies method. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s baby is 28 weeks old, and Laura’s baby is 24 weeks old.| This episode's show notes - https://bigfatpositivepodcast.com/ep-56/ | 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. |
| 0:04.7 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.1 | We have our special segment, Today I Learned, where we answer the question, why does |
| 0:12.2 | breastfeeding make us so thirsty? |
| 0:14.3 | And we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:17.8 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:20.6 | Hi, welcome to episode 56. Laura, how are you? You want to give us your |
| 0:25.7 | check-in? Yeah, hi, we're great. So my baby is 24 weeks old, which is about five and a half months. |
| 0:33.4 | I know that, you know, you kind of stop keeping track at some point. |
| 0:44.0 | I should mention that now I have to look on my little baby tracker app every week to know how many weeks he is. |
| 0:45.3 | Yeah, right? |
| 0:51.9 | You just kind of, it fades away around like 19 weeks, I feel like is when it starts to just kind of go away. |
| 0:52.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, it starts becoming less, you know, every week is not this big monumental thing anymore. You know, when your baby is four to five weeks old, the difference |
| 1:00.1 | between four weeks and five weeks is huge, you know? But the difference between 23 and 24 weeks, |
| 1:05.7 | you know, it's less huge. So, yeah, so he's about five and a half months. So my week has been interesting. |
| 1:15.0 | The first thing that I want to talk about is I want to follow up on sleep training. |
| 1:20.3 | Please do. |
| 1:21.0 | Which, as you know, last week we talked about my first week of sleep training where we ended the week with him sleeping entirely through the night |
| 1:27.8 | on his own crossing my fingers so hard that's been the status quo i got my logs and he woke up |
| 1:36.8 | one time the entire week in the middle of the night that's amazing and that one time was when our stupid i shouldn't say stupid i like it a lot when |
| 1:47.2 | the outlet monitor had a bad reading like something went wrong and it couldn't get a reading |
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