By the time a little one is three years old, their brain is almost 85% formed. Just from a neurodevelopmental perspective, it is actually quite interesting. Based on your experience or research, can you flesh out why not spending time with your children can be detrimental to their development? This is probably intuitive to many, but it would be beneficial to spell it out. Let’s now jump to the core of our discussion. My schedule is a mixture of working from the office, working from home, and working from my phone. So, my schedule looks pretty different than it did a year ago. My life changed completely about a year ago when I gave birth to my daughter.
Seeing the impact the swaddle had on Oliver is what inspired me to want to share the swaddle with little ones all over the world.Ĭan you tell us a bit more about what your day to day schedule looks like? A year later and after huge changes in his development, he was adopted by a loving family. Once Oliver started using the swaddle, he began to regulate his system more, which allowed him to be able to do such things as eat, sleep, and even work on bonding and attachment. And, that was how the Ollie swaddle was invented. So, I decided to create my own swaddle for Oliver to help meet all of his needs. They did not contain him properly, he would overheat, and the fabric did not provide the right amount of pressure on his limbs. So, I bought every single swaddle on the market and nothing worked.
Freier Randall to help assess Oliver and we discussed the importance of swaddling. Kiti Freier Randall, a pediatric neurodevelopmental psychologist. With my work with the SART centers, I had the privilege of being able to connect with an amazing transdisciplinary team, including Dr. As a result, he was on the verge of being hospitalized and labeled “failure to thrive”. He struggled with the basics of eating, sleeping, and attachment. When he came to me, Oliver was 3 months old but developmentally, he was only a couple of weeks old. There was still more that I wanted to do, so I also became a single foster parent for a drug-exposed infant, named Oliver. I started working for the Children’s Network and helped to create SART centers that worked with drug and trauma exposed infants and children from 0–5 years old. From that very moment, I knew that was the area I wanted to be a part of making a difference in. We discussed the tremendous surge of methamphetamine throughout the county (it was actually the highest in the entire country) and the impact it was having on babies both in-utero and postpartum. But, it was one meeting in 2007 with the Director of the Children’s Network in San Bernardino County that had the greatest impact on me. Throughout my schooling career, I always knew that I wanted to work in the mental health field in some capacity. My parents were very kind and supportive when I would make magical “potions” that I was sure would be a cure for something, and would hide them in random places around the house.Ĭan you share the story about what brought you to this specific point in your career? I’ve always loved babies and also inventing things. I was born and raised in Upland, California with an incredible mom, dad, and older brother.
Thank you so much for joining us! Can you tell us your “childhood backstory”?
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