Ep. 73: The Struggle Is Real: Giving Medicine to a Baby
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In the segment, “They Said What?!”, Shanna gets off-putting feedback about her baby’s size, and Laura receives mind-boggling comments about her baby’s gender. Also, Laura talks about battling the eight-to-ten-month sleep regression, and Shanna describes her struggle to give her sick baby medication. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s baby is ten months and two weeks old, and Laura’s baby is nine months and two week old. This episode's show notes - https://bigfatpositivepodcast.com/ep-73/ | 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. |
| 0:05.4 | This week we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.5 | We have our special segment, they said what, |
| 0:09.5 | where people offer their two cents on infant sizism and gender norms. |
| 0:14.2 | And we close with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:16.7 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:18.7 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:19.6 | Welcome to episode 73. Hi, Shauna. Hey, everyone. Welcome to episode 73. |
| 0:22.2 | Hi, Shana. |
| 0:23.7 | Hi. |
| 0:24.7 | Hey, how old is your baby? |
| 0:26.4 | Tell us what you've been doing lately. |
| 0:28.5 | She's 10 months, two weeks, and all week I have been trying to take care of a sick baby. |
| 0:34.7 | Oh, poor C.C. |
| 0:36.7 | I know. |
| 0:37.6 | I took her to the doctor because this lingering cough, I think you did a similar thing, right? |
| 0:42.5 | Your baby was just like coughing forever. |
| 0:44.9 | And so you're like, well, I should go check on this cough. |
| 0:47.9 | And I took her in and he looks in her ear and same thing with you. |
| 0:52.4 | He was like, oh, she has an ear infection. |
| 0:54.2 | I was like, what? That sucks, man. Oh, yeah. Like, I did not know, right? She wasn't really |
| 1:00.7 | exhibiting signs of ear infection. So she had that. And then he listened to her lungs. And he was |
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