Cosmic Baby Training and Fetal DNA Facts - Ep. 368

In the special segment "Today I Learned," Laura and Shanna discuss the intriguing things they have learned recently related to the world of parenting, including a mind-blowing fact about fetal DNA and the "otherworldly" origins of a popular personality assessment. Also, Shanna talks about her quest to celebrate her birthday while managing a migraine, and Laura reports on juggling work deadlines and child care during her 6-year-old's summer break. Finally, the moms share their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna's kids are 6.5 and 9 years old, and Laura’s kids are 6 years old and 4 years old.

Topics discussed in this episode:
-How to treat yourself on your birthday when you are a mom and have a migraine
-Balancing work deadlines and parenting when you don't have child care
-Does fetal DNA remain in a birth mom's bloodstream?
-How do fetal stem cells in a birth mom's bloodstream benefit the mother?
-What is the Cosmic Laboratory of Baby Training?
-One of Shanna's new favorite picture books for kids
-A thought-provoking idea that Laura came across in a fellow mom's Substack

Products, links, and resources mentioned in this episode:
-Burke Williams Day Spa (burkewilliams.com)
-Non-Invasive Prenatal Test (NIPT) (hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and…)
-The Cosmic Laboratory for Baby Training (npr.org/2018/09/22/650019038/how-the-myers-bri…)
-Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (themyersbriggs.com/en-US/Products-and-Services…)
-"The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing" by Merve Emre (merveemre.com/paraliterary)
-Maintenance Phase podcast's episode on the Myers-Briggs Personality Test (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-myers-briggs…)
-"Buffalo Fluffalo" by Bess Kalb and Erin Kraan (amazon.com/Buffalo-Fluffalo-Stories-Bess-Kalb/…)
-Bess Kalb's Substack - "The Grudge Report" (besskalb.substack.com)
-Kira Cook's Substack - "The Way We Weren't" (kiracook.substack.com)

Past BFP episodes mentioned in this episode:
-Ep. 367 (bigfatpositivepodcast.com/ep-367) (For Shanna's mammogram/breast biopsy check-in)

This episode's full show notes can be found here (bigfatpositivepodcast.com/ep-368).

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