Ep. 68: Mom Friends: How to Make 'em and Break 'em
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Laura and Shanna talk about how to make mom friends and how mom friendships can go terribly, awkwardly wrong. Also, Laura describes how an unexpected medical procedure threw a wrench in her week, and Shanna describes how her baby’s stranger anxiety has reached excruciating new heights. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s baby is nine months and one week old, and Laura’s baby is eight months and two weeks old. | This episode's show notes - https://bigfatpositivepodcast.com/ep-68/ | 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. |
| 0:05.4 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:08.0 | We have our special segment, which is big topic, where we dive into the topic of mom friends, |
| 0:14.6 | how to meet them, what it's like to go on mom friend dates, and how some things go wrong. |
| 0:20.7 | We wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:23.8 | Let's get to it. Hi, welcome to episode 68. Hey, Laura. Hey, Shauna. How are you guys this week? |
| 0:31.4 | How old's your baby? What's you been up to? So my baby is eight months and two weeks. |
| 0:36.0 | And we kind of had a big weeks. So my mom is actually |
| 0:39.4 | still in town. She actually extended her trip for a couple reasons. One was she wanted to |
| 0:44.1 | continue her staycation at the fancy hotel. Ah, who wouldn't. But the other thing was that I ended up |
| 0:51.1 | having a minor medical procedure on Friday. |
| 0:55.5 | What? |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.7 | It was an upper endoscopy. |
| 0:59.6 | So nothing happened. |
| 1:01.9 | I just have had a heartburn like my whole friggin' life, basically. |
| 1:05.9 | Oh, and it was intense in pregnancy, if I remember correctly. |
| 1:09.2 | It was awful in pregnancy. |
| 1:11.6 | That's why you had your wedge and everything. Oh, yeah. I had my sleeping wedge. I mean, I sometimes had to sleep basically |
| 1:16.4 | sitting up because of the reflex. It just was awful. And I couldn't wait for it to get better after |
| 1:22.5 | pregnancy was over. And yeah, it got better, but it didn't go away by any stretch. And I finally realized, |
| 1:30.1 | like, I need to go see a GI doctor, gastroenterologist, and see, like, you know, if anything is going |
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