Supported Start

03/08/2025

In honor of World Breastfeeding Week, I'm sharing my article "Mom and Dad Back Hacks" because, let's face it, whether you're breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, or doing a combo, nurturing your little one can do a number on your back! Here you will find two easy stretches and one super simple exercise that will have a massive impact on your posture and back health. On behalf of your baby, thank you for the nurturing and take a moment to nurture yourself. ❤



Supported Start offers expert coaching - by a pediatric physical therapist - for your baby’s development. With individualized purposeful play plans and concierge support, we’ll help your baby reach their milestones and decrease your overwhelm. You’ve got this, parents! 💪

xo,
Katie

By Katie Briggs, MSPT, CIMT2, CPMT

31/07/2025

🚨Essential parenting tool alert!🚨
I cannot recommend the Baby Shusher enough! If you’re in need of a tool to help calm your little one, I hope this helps. ❤️

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01/07/2025

👉 Ask the Expert, Episode 5! 👈

Marie-Eve of Slumber Time Solutions is a Certified Gentle Sleep Coach who helps tired families find much-needed rest. She's here to tell us about her journey with sleep deprivation and her individualized approach to supporting families. "I don’t believe there’s one right way to sleep or one perfect schedule for all babies. I help families find what’s right for them." If you're a parent in need of some 💤💤💤, this one's for you. ❤️

Meet Marie-Eve Gagnon, a Certified Gentle Sleep Coach who helps tired families find the rest they need. Marie-Eve's own experience with sleep deprivation led her to this career, and as such, her approach is rooted in emp...

24/06/2025

I actually can't believe there's a National Detroit Style Pizza Day!!?!? Well, if we're going to honor this random day, I might as well share this little-known-but-related-to-today's-randomness-fact: I'm a published poet!

While it's more fun to read it in the physically published book, here's the link to the electronic version: https://luckyjefferson.com/discoverbeaverton/

Happy reading! (And Happy National Detroit Style Pizza Day! 🤣)



Supported Start offers expert coaching - by a pediatric physical therapist - for your baby’s development. With individualized purposeful play plans and concierge support, we’ll help your baby reach their milestones and decrease your overwhelm. You’ve got this, parents! ❤

xo,
Katie

21/06/2025

Happy First Day of Summer!☀️ To celebrate, I wrote an article on water play! 💦



Supported Start offers expert coaching - by a pediatric physical therapist - for your baby’s development. With individualized purposeful play plans and concierge support, we’ll help your baby reach their milestones and decrease your overwhelm. You’ve got this, parents! ❤

xo,
Katie

By Katie Briggs, PT, MSPT, CIMT2, CKTP

15/06/2025

So thankful for all the dads and dad-figures out there! ❤



Supported Start offers expert coaching - by a pediatric physical therapist - for your baby’s development. With individualized purposeful play plans and concierge support, we’ll help your baby reach their milestones and decrease your overwhelm. You’ve got this, parents! 💪

xo,
Katie

11/06/2025

Sometimes the "it depends" answer is frustrating, but when it comes to Supported Start's model, that's what makes it great! We meet your baby WHERE THEY ARE.

👶How do we decide what to work on? I look at what your baby is currently able to do and we build from there! For example, if they're sitting, but not yet crawling, the focus of our session will likely be transitions from sitting to hands-and-knees, and exercises to strengthen the muscles needed for crawling. After the session, you'll know what activities will help your baby get to this next big milestone (because we've done them during the session and I've sent you your baby's Individualized Purposeful Play Plan).

👶How do we progress? The next session, we reassess where your baby is and continue to build! If they're still working on learning to crawl, we'll see what's holding them back, and focus on that. If they started crawling since we last met, we'll get going on the building blocks for standing activities.

The key to this model is meeting your baby where they are... and it works!

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Supported Start offers expert coaching for your baby’s development. With individualized purposeful play plans and concierge support, we’ll help your baby reach their milestones and decrease your overwhelm. You’ve got this, parents! ❤

xo,
Katie

01/06/2025

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜



Supported Start offers expert coaching for your baby’s development. With individualized purposeful play plans and concierge support, we’ll help your baby reach their milestones and decrease your overwhelm. You’ve got this, parents! ❤

xo,
Katie