05/30/2026
🎙️ NEW EPISODE ALERT! 🎙️
The most important thing you've never heard of is finally getting its moment in the spotlight — and it might just change how you see your child (and yourself 👀).
This week on A Parent's Guide to Child Development, we're diving deep into PRIMITIVE REFLEXES with the incredible Emily Roper — Neuro-Developmental Delay Therapist, certified Midwife's Assistant, founder of , and host of The Early Roots Podcast. With 600+ births attended and over a decade in the trenches with kids facing ADHD, autism, anxiety, dyslexia, and sensory challenges, Emily is the expert you didn't know you needed. 💡
Here's the wild part: your baby is born with a set of pre-wired reflexes that are SUPPOSED to disappear in the first year of life. When they don't? They can quietly show up YEARS later as:
😰 Anxiety & mood swings
✏️ Poor handwriting & pencil grip
🍽️ Picky eating & feeding struggles
🪑 Trouble sitting still in school
👕 Hating clothing tags & certain textures
🛒 Sensory meltdowns at the grocery store
📚 Difficulty reading or reversing letters
😴 Fatigue, allergies & chronic stress
And almost NOBODY connects the dots back to infancy. Until now. 🎯
In this episode, we cover:
🧠 What primitive reflexes actually are
🍼 Feeding reflexes (Rooting, Sucking, Babkin)
🦶 Mobility reflexes (Stepping, Plantar)
✋ The Palmar Grasp
🤸 Coordination reflexes (ATNR, STNR, Spinal Galant, TLR)
😱 Self-preservation reflexes (Moro, Fear Paralysis)
⏰ When they SHOULD integrate
🚨 What happens when they don't
💪 What you can do — at ANY age
🎧 STREAM NOW on:
▶️ YouTube
🟢 Spotify
🍎 Apple Podcasts
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