Ep. 91: Dropping Naps and Picking Up Babies
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Transitioning a toddler from two naps to one is a daunting task, and this week Laura and Shanna discuss their attempts at dropping the second nap. They also talk about the RIE approach to picking up babies and how quickly a parent can become accustomed to the seemingly bizarre practice. Also, in the special segment “Big Topic,” Shanna and Laura dive into self-care, which can easily take a back seat once children enter the picture. The new moms ask themselves how they are succeeding and failing at self-care and how they can improve in prioritizing their own needs. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s toddler is 14 months and two weeks old, and Laura’s toddler is 13 months and three weeks old.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.4 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.8 | We have our special segment, Big Topic, where we tackle the topic of self-care. |
| 0:13.6 | What is it? |
| 0:14.9 | Are we doing it? |
| 0:16.0 | How can we do it better? |
| 0:17.5 | And we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:20.7 | Let's get started. |
| 0:22.9 | Hi, welcome to episode 91. Hey, Laura. Hey, Shauna. Why don't you give us your update? |
| 0:28.5 | How old is your toddler? My toddler is 13 months and three weeks and we have officially switched to one nap. |
| 0:36.8 | Whoa. It's happened. |
| 0:39.1 | So I was going to like do a whole thing where we, you know, gradually transition to one nap. |
| 0:47.4 | And then there was a day where there was construction and they were drilling into the wall |
| 0:53.7 | next to his crib and woke him up |
| 0:55.2 | like extremely rudely and he got 30 minutes of sleep and the whole day. And I was like, you know what, |
| 1:03.8 | that's just going to be our reset. Let's just make it one nap from here on and we went cold turkey |
| 1:08.7 | and it actually worked really well. Good. Well, he was so |
| 1:12.4 | ready for it. He was very ready for it. I will say that his night's sleep has been a bit |
| 1:18.3 | disturbed. And I think it's because of the nap transition, but I think it's also because he's teething. |
| 1:23.5 | Like his molars are definitely coming in or his pre-molars or whatever you call him on the left side. |
| 1:29.9 | And I don't know what part of it is the nap and what part of it is the teething, but he's woken up at least once, I mean, really once per night for the last like three nights. |
| 1:43.3 | Does he need help when he wakes up at night? Yeah. Not every. He doesn't usually, but these nights he has. Like so that's been a bit of a discouraging. I was like, oh no, did we switch too soon? But I've decided I need to give him a full week of, you know, one nap to see if he settles. And so we're going to give him a full week. I'm not |
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