Baby Exercise Company Partners with Center for Disease Control

Baby Builders infant exercise program has accepted an invitation to serve as an external partner for the Centers for Disease Controls (CDC) National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD). Baby Builders is a developmental exercise program designed to help infants advance in motor skills, gain strength, increase coordination, achieve balance, and minimize developmental delays.

Branson, MO November 8, 2004 -- Baby Builders infant exercise program has accepted an invitation to serve the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) as an external partner.

Baby Builder's representatives were recently invited to the NCBDDDs headquarters in Atlanta to discuss their pioneering program. Following an enthusiastic response, Baby Builders was chosen to work with the NCBDDD to enhance their mission in promoting child development and preventing developmental disorders/disabilities among Americas children.

Baby Builders, created by pediatric physical therapist Jenna Zervas, MSPT, is a developmental exercise program designed to help infants advance in motor skills, gain strength, increase coordination, achieve balance, and minimize developmental delays.

NCBDDD provides national leadership for preventing birth defects and developmental disabilities and for improving the health and wellness of people with disabilities.

We are honored to join the external partners group of the NCBDDD and serve them with such prominent organizations as the American Academy of Pediatrics, Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, March of Dimes, Special Olympics and others, said Zervas.

Baby Builders can impact a child for a lifetime by helping parents bond with their infant and instructing parents how to stimulate their childs motor skill development, which research shows, is the foundation of all mental life.

Baby Builders walks parents through 4 developmental stages with their infants: Strength, balance, movement, and coordination. I say with confidence that infants will benefit through this instructional and educational format, shares Edward Gustavson, M.D., the Chief of Developmental pediatrics at Childrens Medical Center in Tulsa, Ok. The videos 17 exercises culminate with teaching a child to walk.

Jenna Zervas went to the University of Arkansas to pursue her dreams to be a pediatric surgeon and United States Olympic diver. A back injury ended her diving career and placed her in physical therapy. After completing therapy, Jenna graduated cum laude and completed a Masters of Science degree in Physical Therapy at Washington University in St. Louis. As a pediatric Physical Therapist at St. Johns Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she developed St. Johns Medical Centers pediatric therapy program in their outpatient unit, inpatient unit, and pediatric and neonatal Intensive Care Units. She currently resides with her husband, Chris, and two children, Zoe (3 years) and Elle (2), in Branson, Missouri.

Zervas and Baby Builders have been featured on radio, television, and various print media.

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