Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura.

On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins.

We have a brand new special segment called Mom Wins, where we celebrate the high points

in our parenting life, and we wrap it up with our BFPs and BFNs.

Let's get started.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to the show. Hey, Laura. Hello. How are you guys doing this week? Start us off with your weekly check-in.

So, okay, it's week 28 for my baby. And that means we're six and a half months, right? Okay.

And the baby cold is still in full force, unfortunately. Yes. Oh, man. I know.

So I think three weeks ago, it was parvo virus, which was mild. Then it turned into like a normal

baby cold that I ended up getting. And then I don't know if I gave him my, like, I don't know like, he went parvo, then I got sick and then I gave him whatever I had. Or it was parvo, then he got sick, then he got me sick, and we're both still sick. I don't, like, I don't know. I'm feeling better for the most part, but he is still coughing. Like, he's in a great mood, but the cough just sucks, man. Oh, baby cough. Oh, it's so sad. Oh, and it's been waking him up at night, which really sucks. It just hurts your heart, you know? Like, I'll have the monitor next to me on my nightstand, and I'll just hear in the middle of the night, like, and I'm just like little baby like I just want to go scoop him up you know and then he goes back to sleep but poor little thing so on top of that his second tooth broke through all right I knew it was going to be right behind that first one, and it was. So now he has these two little,

it takes so long for them to get in all the way. You know, so he has these little like tooth buds,

these little, and they're ridged, you know, like they're so sharp. But they're really, really

cute. So on top of the cold, he got his second tooth, and I'm so proud of him.

And on top of all that, we're getting ready to go on our first plane flight as a family.

Oh, that's exciting.

Where are you going?

We are going to Portland, where my stepdad lives.

My mom splits her time between there and Fresno, so she's going to be up there. And we, we didn't want to go because we were like, we don't want to get on a plane. We don't want to travel. We're kind of homebodies. You know, we like traveling on our own terms, but like we just didn't want to do it. And then my mom was like, I'm buying your ticket. You're coming up. And it's like, okay, well, how can you argue with that? So we are trying to figure out, like, I have like a packing list going, trying to figure out, like, all the things I need to buy. I'm going to try to just bring like minimal diapers and have my mom picks them up in Portland, you know. Oh, that's a good idea. Yeah. And we're also going to borrow a travel crib from someone who went to my college, actually. I, because I went to college in Portland, Oregon, I should say, Portland, Oregon. And so I know a lot of alumni in the area, and I'm part of my alumni group for my college on Facebook. And so I put a call out saying, like, does anyone have a travel crib? Because my mom, by the way, she was like, oh, we've got two pack and plays. I was like, oh, can you tell me when they were manufactured? And she went and rummaged through and was like, oh, they're, you know, 2010 or something. And apparently pack and plays before 20, I think it's 2012 or 2014, now I'm not

even remembering, but it's later than 2010, are no longer considered safe because they

changed the safety rules about them. Did you know this? Oh, interesting. I had no idea.

They like reinforced them, made it so that they're less likely to collapse spontaneously or if they were like kicked in the wrong way or something. And the bottom's more reinforced, apparently. And I looked it up and there were apparently like 60 infant deaths associated with these old pack in place. Oh no. Which is awful. And I don't know how long of a period of time and whether they were set up right or not. But either way, I'm like, I'm not messing around with this. You know, I was like, we could bring our brand-new pack-and-play if we wanted to. But I put a call out onto my alumni board, and there were like three people were like, yeah, yeah, you can have it. but the first person who offered was like, I'll just take her up. And she was between the airport and my stepdad's house. It was perfect. So we're going to go pick it up on her porch after we arrive. Oh, that's so great. So nice. Helping moms, parents, helping parents. That's so great. It is so great. People are so generous. And also, I get it because you're like, I have this thing. It's in my closet. Like, yeah, please get it out of my closet. Like, you know, we use it three times a year, you know, or whatever. Please take it. So that's exciting. So yeah, we have all the stuff we're trying to pack up and figure out. I got a FaceTime call from my mom. She was at like the little, there's actually a resale store, like a kids resale store, right around the corner from their house. And so she's like giving me like a visual tour of it. And she's like, okay, there are two jumparoos. Which ones do you want me to get for him while he's here?

I'm like, you don't have to get a jumproo.

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