Ep. 99: First Trimester Flashbacks
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s special segment, “Gripe Water,” Laura and Shanna vent about ridiculously inappropriate nursery rhymes, toddler eating habits and more. Also, Laura reports on her toddler’s recent development in gross motor skills, including spinning and dancing, and Shanna talks about her toddler’s recent development in fine motor skills, including sorting shapes and fastening buckles. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s toddler is 16 months old, and Laura’s toddler is 15 months old.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:06.0 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:08.5 | We have our special segment, Grip Water, where we talk about questionable kids' stories and questionable kids' food choices. |
| 0:16.7 | We wrap it up with our BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:19.4 | Let's get started. |
| 0:24.4 | Hey, everyone. welcome to episode 99. |
| 0:31.0 | Laura, we've done 99 of these. I cannot believe that. Like, it really blows my mind. |
| 0:39.7 | I know. I remember at the beginning, every episode, we're like 15, 16. Oh, gosh, you've done 25 episodes and then we stopped caring. |
| 0:47.6 | But this, this makes me feel very accomplished. I know. It's so exciting. So anyway, on this 99th episode, what are you up to? How old's your toddler? And what's going on? |
| 0:53.3 | My toddler is 15 months and two weeks. And we had a big milestone this week, which was we finally did his first haircut. Oh, that's so awesome. I don't think Elle got her first haircut until she was three. |
| 1:11.7 | Oh, really? Three to half. So this is exciting. A baby haircut. Who did it? Where did you go? |
| 1:17.8 | Nowhere, because we're still under quarantine. So thankfully, one of my friends from Mommy and Me class is a hairstylist. And I was asking her for tips. I was like, I think we have to do it. Okay, full disclosure, his agent asked us to do it. Oh, my God. He needs new photos and they like, not so subtle. She was just like, you need to trim the hair around his ears. And I was like, she means all of it. And then I started looking at the photos |
| 1:44.9 | because we took like a whole batch of DIY headshots to try to send in. And they like, they were like, |
| 1:49.5 | none of these work. You need to fix his hair basically. Really? And we had been putting it off because |
| 1:55.4 | I kind of liked the shaggy. He had gotten these like wings, like Farrah Fawcett wings of blonde hair coming out, like, everywhere. |
| 2:03.9 | And he had a little bit of like a wave, a curl in it. |
| 2:06.9 | And I was just like, I don't want to cut his beautiful hair. |
| 2:10.1 | But we had been sort of tossing the idea around for a little while. |
| 2:14.6 | And it started getting in his eyes pretty badly. |
| 2:18.4 | You know, he was trying to, he doesn't quite understand to like brush them out of his face yet you know and oh yeah |
| 2:24.8 | it was sort of getting in his eyes and you don't want to give him a man bun i you know i tried one day |
| 2:30.3 | to put like a little i had those little itty-bitty hair ties, you know. I tried putting |
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