Ep. 61: Having Other People’s Babies - Interview with Gestational Surrogate Deanna Koelsch
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Laura and Shanna interview gestational surrogate Deanna Koelsch, who is currently pregnant with her fourth surrogacy! Deanna talks about what it’s like to carry another family’s child, how she got into surrogacy, how her own family and children feel about her doing so, and much more. Also, Shanna discusses her current struggles with her baby’s 8-month sleep regression, and Laura reports on her baby’s first trip on an airplane. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s baby is seven months and three weeks old, and Laura’s baby is six months and three weeks old.| This episode's show notes - https://bigfatpositivepodcast.com/ep-61/ | 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 | Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. This week we have our weekly check-ins. We have a very |
| 0:07.3 | special interview with Deanna Kelsch, a gestational surrogate who's going to tell us all about what |
| 0:11.9 | it's like to carry other people's babies and give birth to them. It's amazing. You'll want to hear it. |
| 0:17.7 | And then we close with our BFPs and BFEvents for the week. Let's get to it. |
| 0:44.7 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to the show. This is episode 61. Hello, Shana. Hi. Hello, do you want to tell us what's happening with you this week and how old your baby is now? Yeah, she's seven months and three weeks. Cool. So we're getting real close to eight months, which means she's coming into the eight to ten months sleep regression. |
| 0:45.3 | Oh. |
| 0:46.1 | Oh. |
| 0:48.0 | No one told me about this one. |
| 0:48.6 | Come on. |
| 0:50.0 | Oh, me neither. |
| 0:54.9 | You know, I always like reverse Google things really, like shit goes down. And then I'm like, |
| 0:58.7 | what is happening? What's going on? And then it's like, you Google and go down, you're like, |
| 1:05.8 | oh, it's an eight-month sleep regression. So it's been a little bit rough with her. I mean, |
| 1:10.1 | and also she's just got so much going on. You know, she's just learned to crawl. She's totally obsessed with standing. |
| 1:12.3 | I mean, I had to lower her mattress in her crib because she was standing in her crib and, like, |
| 1:18.2 | I was worried she was going to tip over the edge of it. Oh, yeah, you got to do that. |
| 1:21.9 | Yeah. So she's obsessed with that, which I think messes with her sleep. She's definitely teething. I think you mentioned last week or the week before, like, it was obvious when your baby's teeth were actually about to come in. You spend months being like, I think they're teething. I think they're teething. And then like, when they're actually teething, you're like, oh, there it is. Yeah, exactly. And I totally predicted that my baby would have a hard time with teething |
| 1:45.8 | because she's just so loud and expressive anyway. So I was like, oh, teething is going to be |
| 1:52.3 | an interesting time for us. And so that's gotten just really ramped up with the drool and the |
| 1:59.2 | crankiness and all of that. And on top of all of that, |
| 2:02.2 | she has her first cold, which I know your baby also had recently. Yeah. Yeah. So there's that. |
| 2:10.0 | And also in my reverse engineering of what's going on in my life, she is in her next leap. |
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