Ep. 78: A Massive Mom Milestone
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
2020 is here, and Shanna and Laura are approaching a massive mom milestone - finishing the first year of parenting a new baby! They keep it real as they reflect on the last 12 months as new moms, from the joy, to the chaos, to the best books they’ve managed to read from cover to cover. Also, Laura talks about her 10-month-old son’s recent leap in language development, and Shanna describes her 11-month-old daughter’s new way of playing with toys. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s baby is 11 months and three weeks old, and Laura’s baby is 10 months and three weeks old.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.5 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:08.1 | We have our special segment, Big Topic, where the Big Topic is 2019, where we reflect on the past year and reveal some unexpected things that have happened to us in the last 12 months. |
| 0:18.6 | And finally, we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. Let's get to it. |
| 0:24.4 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to episode 78. Hi, Laura. Hey, Shauna. How are you guys doing? Oh, well, we are doing well. |
| 0:32.3 | My baby is 10 months and three weeks old. So it's Thanksgiving week when we're recording. |
| 0:37.3 | This will be released a little bit later. But in our present. So it's Thanksgiving week when we're recording. This will be |
| 0:37.8 | released a little bit later, but in our present moment, it's Thanksgiving week. And Thanksgiving |
| 0:43.6 | can be fun and it can be a nightmare. I don't know. So we, I shouldn't say it was a nightmare. |
| 0:52.3 | We just have had a little bit of a harder week than expected because we went up to Fresno for the Thanksgiving holiday to visit family. |
| 1:02.8 | Oh, that's kind of a big road trip, right? |
| 1:03.7 | Like three hour drive? |
| 1:04.7 | Three and a half hour drive, yeah, which, you know, with the baby ends up taking four and a half hours, really. |
| 1:10.1 | Because, you know, you have to stop at some point and chill out. And also we, this is such a stupid-ass first world |
| 1:17.3 | problem, but we brought Corey's Tesla. So you have to charge it midway through. So we brought |
| 1:24.8 | Corey's Tesla and charged it midway through, which actually, it makes a great stopping point with the baby, so it's fine. Mm-hmm. How long does it take to charge? Oh, it took like 20 minutes, I want to say, 30 minutes. It took less time than it took for us to like go to Chipotle and get some lunch. okay yeah it wasn't bad there's a really great |
| 1:45.6 | supercharger that's what they call these like charging stations right in the middle like it's in |
| 1:49.9 | this place called lebeck which is like right midway between l.A and fresno so it's very convenient and |
| 1:56.3 | they've got this huge like center where there's an in and out and a chipotle so we just walked over |
| 2:02.0 | to the chipotle and it was fine but of course it was crazy busy because everyone's on the road |
| 2:07.0 | so you know it took us like a half hour just to order it freaking chipotle but that was all fine |
| 2:13.5 | the baby wasn't so into the car ride but we totally gave in and played some videos on the iPad, which seemed to help him chill out for about like 40 minutes. |
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