Ep. 86: Weaning From Boobs, Bottles and Baby-Tracking Apps
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Lactation consultant Jessica Claire, IBCLC, is back to discuss weaning from breastfeeding and answer listener questions! Also, Laura wonders if her baby is technically walking yet, and Shanna discusses her very un-scientific conclusion about why her toddler has been waking up screaming at night. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s toddler is 13 months and 2 weeks old, and Laura’s baby is 12 months and 3 weeks old.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:08.7 | We have a special interview with lactation consultant Jessica Claire, where we answer your questions and talk to her about what it's like to be a lactation consultant. |
| 0:18.1 | And we wrap things up with our weekly BFPs and BFMs. Let's get to it. |
| 0:23.7 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to episode 86. Hi, Laura. Hey, Shana. How are you guys? How old's your baby? |
| 0:29.9 | My baby is 12 months and three weeks and we're good. So this week has been pretty smooth sailing. |
| 0:35.9 | We are just on the train towards walking. |
| 0:39.4 | I don't know what you call what you call it. |
| 0:41.0 | The crawl, the slow crawl towards walking. |
| 0:43.1 | The people mover toward walking. |
| 0:44.9 | Yes, yes. |
| 0:46.0 | So I think last week I mentioned that we had been on a staycation and he was watching his little friend Carrie's daughter walk around. So that sort of inspired him to |
| 0:57.5 | take two to three steps. Well, now we're up to like eight-ish steps. What? That's official. Good |
| 1:03.6 | job, baby. You think that's official? I don't know. I feel like I'm not calling it yet because he still |
| 1:08.5 | has to be between like two high objects. I don't know. It doesn't |
| 1:12.7 | feel quite there yet. I mean, the kid has figured out how to get himself up on his feet, balance, |
| 1:19.0 | move, step. That's walking. Okay. That's walking. I am giving your baby a blue ribbon for walking. |
| 1:26.1 | Well, you can deliver that to Pasadena, California. |
| 1:29.3 | I'll make sure to put it on his wall. |
| 1:31.4 | Thank you. |
| 1:31.8 | Yeah, I think, you know, it's interesting because obviously it's imminent. |
| 1:36.1 | Whether or not it's like official or not, you know, the jury is out. |
| 1:41.3 | But it's obviously very, very close. And also, like, I've realized that it's not like a lot of |
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