Ep. 77: Am I a Terrible Mom?
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In the segment “OMG I’m Freaking Out,” Laura experiences bodily sensations that have her wondering if she’s pregnant again, and Shanna worries about disturbing news about a prescription drug that her baby took for months. Also, Shanna discusses her baby’s new sharing skills as well as an accident that had Shanna questioning her mothering skills, and Laura talks about her baby’s recent fever and gives an update about his lead and iron tests. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s baby is 11 months old and two weeks, and Laura’s baby is 10 months and two weeks old.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.1 | This week we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:06.7 | We have our special segment, OMG, I'm freaking out, where we get weird feelings and worrisome news. |
| 0:11.9 | And we close with our BFPs and BFNs for the week. |
| 0:14.5 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:16.8 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:19.3 | It's episode 77. |
| 0:20.7 | Hello, Shauna. Hi. Tell us what is going on this week. How old is your baby? She is 11 months and two weeks old, and she started doing something super cute that I have to report on. I can't wait. She has started sharing things with me. It started with her bottle. I'd be holding or feeding her |
| 0:42.5 | bottle and she'd look up at me and then take the bottle out of her mouth and try to put it in my mouth. |
| 0:47.4 | And I would like pretend to like suck on it and she would just like crack up and she loved it so funny. |
| 0:53.7 | And that moved on to sharing her food with me. |
| 0:56.8 | So she'll like give me little bites of her food. |
| 0:59.0 | And yesterday I was feeding her macaroni and cheese. |
| 1:02.0 | She took one individual mac and cheese noodle, bit it in half between her four little tiny front teeth, ate one half and gave me the other half oh come on |
| 1:14.4 | that's so cute so stinking cute i just love this age it's just so fun oh my god i'm just falling in |
| 1:23.3 | love with her more every day that's so sweet and. And she wants, she just really wants to share. |
| 1:27.6 | Like, she doesn't really understand that you could just have your own noodle. She's like, |
| 1:31.8 | okay, I'm going to bite this little one in half, half for me, half for mommy. That's so sweet. |
| 1:39.0 | It's so sweet. And I could tell she prefers to put it straight into my mouth. Like if I hold out |
| 1:43.8 | my hand, that's not the preferred method of deliverance. I have to like open my mouth. She puts it in and she just giggles and delight when I like chomp it up. And she knows that she's then. So yeah, and toys too, you know, she'll like now she realizes, she can hand over a toy. And she doesn't really |
| 2:02.2 | give it to me a lot. I don't think she wants to give me the toy. Like, I try to take it and then |
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