Ep. 8: Pregnancy Cravings and Fun Facts About Fetuses (15 and 19 Weeks Pregnant)
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Shanna and Laura discuss pregnancy cravings, headaches and placentas, and they make a discovery about one more thing their pregnancies have in common. Also, in the special segment "Today I Learned," the moms-to-be share fun and fascinating facts they have learned recently about their developing fetuses, diving into the topics of what babies can taste and what coats their skin while they are in utero. Finally, they share their highs and lows (BFPs and BFNs) for the week. Laura is 15 weeks pregnant, and Shanna is 19 weeks pregnant.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Week 15 of pregnancy
-Week 19 of pregnancy
-Second trimester
-Placentas
-Anterior placenta
-Headaches during pregnancy
-Pregnancy cravings
-Fetus taste buds
-Can fetuses taste things in utero?
-What is vernix?
-Prenatal yoga
-Prenatal pilates
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. I'm Laura. I'm Shawna. And we are friends and writing partners who happen to be pregnant at the exact same time. So we decided to start a podcast about it. On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. We have a segment called Today I Learned, where things get unexpectedly cheesy, and we do our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:26.6 | Let's get started. |
| 0:30.2 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:31.4 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:32.5 | This is episode eight. |
| 0:34.3 | Yes, episode eight. |
| 0:35.7 | Hi, Shana. |
| 0:36.9 | Hi. |
| 0:37.7 | So tell us what's been going on with you this week. |
| 0:40.4 | We've got to do our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:43.1 | All right. |
| 0:43.9 | So I am week 19. |
| 0:46.5 | And, oh, my God. |
| 0:49.4 | The weird body pregnancy things just keep on coming. The hits keep coming, Laura. The hits just keep on coming. |
| 0:54.6 | The hits keep coming, Laura. |
| 0:56.1 | The hits just keep on coming. |
| 0:58.1 | Tell me more. |
| 0:59.1 | I have had intense headaches every day. |
| 1:02.9 | No. |
| 1:04.5 | Every day, it's like there's just so much pressure in my sinuses. |
| 1:09.5 | I wake up in the morning. |
| 1:31.0 | My head is throbbing. And I'm prone to headaches anyway. But when I was pregnant with my first, they went away. It's like pregnancy cured my migraines. But not this time. I'm just in so much pain. And as you know, I'm so mad about the fact that we can only take Tylenol when we're pregnant because it doesn't do shit. |
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