Ep. 7: Babymoon Bliss and Nursery Nightmares (14 and 18 Weeks Pregnant)
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Laura reports on entering the second trimester and taking a babymoon to Hawaii, and Shanna describes feeling her baby move. Also, in the special segment "What I Googled This Week," embarrassment abounds as Shanna and Laura admit the pregnancy topics they asked the internet this week, including the topics of sore butts, peeing while sneezing and more. Finally, the moms-to-be also divulge their highs and lows (BFPs and BFNs) this week. Laura is 14 weeks pregnant, and Shanna is 18 weeks pregnant.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Week 14 of pregnancy
-Week 18 of pregnancy
-Second trimester
-Babymoon
-Hawaii
-Fetal movement
-Feeling your baby move
-Butt hurting from sitting while pregnant
-Peeing while sneezing when pregnant
-Mercury in fish
-Prenatal vitamins / gummies
-Baby nursery design
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. I'm Shauna. And I'm Laura. And we are friends and writing partners who are pregnant at the same time. So we started a podcast about it. This week, we've got our weekly check-ins. We've got our special segment, What I Google this week, where Shauna asks her search engine, is this normal? Maybe one too many times. And then we've got our BFPs and BFNs. Let's get to it. |
| 0:27.4 | Hey, welcome to episode seven of Big Fat Positive. |
| 0:31.5 | Hello, everybody. Why don't we get started with our weekly check-ins? Laura, what do you got for us this week? |
| 0:38.1 | Oh, I've got a good one. |
| 0:40.9 | Ooh. |
| 0:41.6 | I went to Hawaii. |
| 0:43.4 | Oh, awesome. |
| 0:46.0 | It was the best. |
| 0:47.8 | I want to go back. |
| 0:51.1 | So basically your week was just a one big BFP. It was. It was a giant BFP. I'm like, oh, Shada. So we went to Maui, |
| 1:02.0 | my husband and I, and it was a trip that we actually had been trying to take for about a year |
| 1:07.1 | and a half. So we went to this fundraiser that had a silent auction. Gosh, it was like |
| 1:11.8 | over a year ago. And it turns out one of my husband's friends had his condo in Maui up for |
| 1:18.6 | silent auction. There weren't a lot of people who could really take on those sort of bigger ticket |
| 1:24.4 | items. So we ended up getting a full week at this really nice condo in Maui for $700. |
| 1:32.7 | Nice. |
| 1:33.4 | Which is a pretty darn good deal. |
| 1:35.6 | And it was, and, you know, we got to know that our money went to a good cause, which was |
| 1:41.4 | extra nice. |
| 1:42.5 | But then we had to schedule it. |
| 1:43.9 | And scheduling it took forever. And then when I found out I was pregnant, it was But then we had to schedule it, and scheduling it took forever. |
| 1:45.8 | And then when I found out I was pregnant, it was like, we gotta schedule this soon |
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