Join us at 2:00pm EST on Sunday, August 6th for our monthly support group meeting! We will be welcoming Charla Tabet, MS, I/ECMH-C, CIMI, and Parker Cluff, President of O Warrior. Charla was born with an omphalocele and is now a certified car seat technician with specialized training in car seat safety for children with special needs. Parker manages the Car Seat Pass Down Program for O Warrior, helping families procure a Jefferson car seat or Hope car bed if families do not otherwise have access to one. As always, everyone from the omphalocele community is welcome (parents of new O babies, experienced parents with older O children, pregnant mothers or expectant family members, grandparents, friends, adult omphalocele survivors) and you are all an important part of our group!

Panelists

Charla Tabet, MS, I/ECMH-C, CIMI

Charla was born in 1977 with a large O. Her parents didn’t know about her O until she was born and she was immediately transferred to a large children’s hospital in Chicago where she spent 6 weeks and had 6 surgeries. She has since had 3 additional surgeries, but otherwise grew up with no medical issues connected to her O and continues to live a healthy life. She shows her scar to anyone that asks! Charla had never met anyone with an O until she was working at a children’s hospital in Chicago where an O baby was admitted for continued care and parent education. She worked, and continues to work, as a pediatric therapist. She is also a certified car seat technician with extra training in car seats for children with special needs. She has felt for years that she went into this work to help children and their families in the ways that she and her parents weren’t supported all those years ago. She is happy to answer any questions about growing up with an O, and car seat safety for O babies in particular.

Parker Cluff, President of O Warrior

Parker's son Crew was born with an omphalocele in 2021. Parker saw that #owarrior was a commonly used hashtag when parents were sharing about their omphalocele kiddos, so he first started the O Warrior journey with a blog for Crew at owarrior.cluff.me. Parker is a software engineer with his undergrad in Computer Science from the University of Utah and an MBA from Brigham Young University. Being outdoors with his family and skiing Utah’s mountains are top on his list of what makes him most happy.