“They just happened to be here for the scariest moment of my life, for all the world to see,” she continues. Everything was perfect - I was over the top on doing everything just right,” Wallick says. Wallick will never forget that visit to her obstetrician - the first time she and fiancé Norman allowed the OWN production crew to accompany them and capture that element of Season One’s storyline - when what should have been routine turned emergent with an unusually high blood pressure reading. NICU Medical Director and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Saint Louis University School of Medicine Farouk Sadiq, MD, says that Timmy was “a little smaller than you would expect” at 27 weeks and attributes that to his mother’s onset of high blood pressure (preeclampsia) early in her last trimester.
Yes, Timmy was born a star and already has quite a following, but it was his premature life debut that initially caused such a stir. Since arriving at exactly 27 weeks gestation, less than 12 inches long and weighing 1 pound 6 ounces, Timmy has been the center of attention of not only parents Jenae Wallick and Tim Norman, their family and friends, and the adoring viewers of “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s,” but the world-class caregivers in the NICU. During the first five months of Timmy’s life, that attention had little to do with performances and focused on live-saving and life-sustaining measures from a team of caregivers in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital. They say you can never get show biz out of your system, so the restaurants’ success, coupled with Miss Robbie’s entertainment background, landed the family a prime time network slot on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) with a reality show/docuseries called “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s.”įor Miss Robbie’s grandson Timmy - or TJ, as some family members call him - there was a time when being the center of attention wasn’t just about being cute. Louis-area Sweetie Pie’s restaurants, nationally known for the down-home menu items Robbie’s mother taught her to make when she was a girl.
Currently, Miss Robbie’s fame centers around her steady climb to successful restaurateur (along with son, Tim Norman) of three St. Louis-raised entertainer and entrepreneur, has many claims to fame, including touring and singing back-up vocals as an Ikette for Ike and Tina Turner. Grandmother Robbie Montgomery, a Mississippi-born and St.
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