Safe T Sleep Speaker Profile
Speaker Profile
Miriam P. Rutherford-van Gisbergen
Mother/Educator/Designer/Managing Director
Safe T Sleep™ International
A mother and positive parenting educator with nursing, counselling and tutoring experience, Miriam is an established advocate and counsellor of baby/child sleeptime safety and positive parenting skills who has worked with parents and health professionals for over twenty five years in both voluntary and paid capacities.
Miriam believes parenting is a learned art and has worked to create more awareness of/and empower parents to make informed choices by listening to new advice, listening to old advice from trusted sources and to put that together with their own intuitive wisdom. She believes that knowledge, positive self esteem, practical skills, good support networks and safe resources will subsequently assist in the challenge of positive skilled parenting.
Miriam designed and developed the Safe T Sleep™ Sleepwrap® to help prevent her own wriggly, adventurous baby from creeping and suffocating and later from standing, climbing or falling from his cot or bed. She wanted peace of mind for herself by ensuring safe and settled sleep for him.
With her consultative responsible approach she hopes to set a precedent for manufacturers of baby/child products to provide safety products which have been tested or researched in a professional manner. The research should be monitored and supervised and available for public information. Quality safety products will help decrease the childhood injury statistics and help reduce parental anxiety.
Miriam has presented Medical Papers at National and International levels, practical sleeptime workshops and numerous positive parenting workshops including several on Marae. She has presented at National and International Conferences and Congresses including International SIDS, National and International Injury Prevention, International Karitane, National and International Royal College of Midwives, International Paediatric and Child Health Nurses, Early Childhood Conferences and Expo’s for Parent, Baby and Child.
She has worked alongside specialists from various facets within the medical profession, in both a learning and support role.
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