Ep. 84: Pumping the Brakes on Pumping Breastmilk
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In the segment, “What I Googled This Week,” Shanna and Laura consult the internet for answers to their latest baby conundrums. Also, Laura talks about her baby’s remarkable new language ability, as well as her mixed feelings about quitting pumping, and Shanna reports on her toddler’s latest cute-as-hell behavior and how it is affecting working from home. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s toddler is 13 months old, and Laura’s baby is 12 months and 1 week 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. |
| 0:08.2 | We have our special segment, What I Googled this week, in which we somehow get into the |
| 0:12.8 | witchcraft and ghost terrain, and we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:18.2 | Let's get started. |
| 0:20.6 | Hey, welcome to episode 84. Hey, Laura. Hi, Shana. How are you doing? |
| 0:25.1 | Good. And how are you? Give us your updates. So, okay, my baby is 12 months and one week. And yeah, |
| 0:31.2 | this week, I've really noticed a huge jump in his receptive language, which I found really interesting. |
| 0:39.4 | You know, I've heard that they understand a lot more than they can express. |
| 0:44.4 | You know, their receptive language is way more intact than their, what is it, their expressive |
| 0:49.7 | language at this age. |
| 0:51.4 | But it's very clear all of a sudden. |
| 0:53.5 | And this week it was just like really |
| 0:54.9 | obvious that he was understanding things I was saying better than he has in the past. And |
| 0:59.9 | there was just one thing that really made me, it just sort of clicked with me, which was we got |
| 1:05.7 | rid of our Christmas tree this week, because when we're recording, this is what two weeks |
| 1:09.5 | isish after Christmas and we |
| 1:11.6 | finally got rid of our Christmas tree. And when I came in the house, we like went out one day |
| 1:16.7 | and came back in and I said, oh, I kind of missed the Christmas tree. And he looked to exactly |
| 1:21.9 | where the Christmas tree was and pointed. Oh. And I was like, wow, so you understood. Like, there's no question that he understood what I was |
| 1:30.3 | saying. And he was understanding that it was gone. And I was like, whoa. And so he's really |
| 1:37.1 | understanding me, which is making me realize, like, I got to be really mindful of how I talk to him. |
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