Mompreneur
JEANELLE TRONCONE, A.C.E.
“You may not have known her story, but every mother who swaddle wrapped her baby or offered her child the magic of a security blanket should thank this woman. Her original and beloved products opened the market place to the comfort needs of babies and their parents.” Donna Holloran, MSW, Child Development Specialist/Parent Educator, www.babygroup.me
Jeanelle Troncone is known as “The Mother of Comfort.” Her intuition and understanding of baby comfort needs gave birth to a new industry of baby products.
In 1987, she patented the first little Soft and Silkie Security Blanket designed for baby comfort response and to carry mother’s scent. Jeanelle was the first researcher to understand why babies are soothed by a silkie feel. She introduced the fact that the fluid that surrounded baby in the womb has similar, soothing feel. Thus, babies have an innate comfort response to the silkie feel they experienced within the womb. She also patented and brought to market the first Infant Swaddler designed for wrapping and calming a newborn. Her products have won the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Award for innovation and design and The National Parenting Seal of Approval.
Jeanelle was a full-time momprenuer before the word was coined. She and her husband Greg are the founders of Comfort Silkie Company. They are the parents of six children that literally grew up within the company. When the company out grew their home Jeanelle brought her brood along to the office with her. She had not planned on becoming a business woman and loved being a mom. She found homeschooling (or officeschooling) her children allowed her the best of both worlds. Over two decades later, the Comfort Silkie company offers a selection of over sixty comfort gifts. Their products have been featured on “Good Morning America” and in the New York Times.
Jeanelle is a Comfort Therapist, Doula, Childbirth and Early Parenthood Educator. She writes and teaches about comfort skills and techniques that embrace the power of comfort.
