Mother, pediatrician, researcher, and author dedicated to health and well being focused on strong parent child connections.
Want to learn how to ease the stresses of care giving with your partner?
Mother, pediatrician, researcher, and author dedicated to health and well being focused on strong parent child connections.
Mother, pediatrician, researcher, and author dedicated to health and well being focused on strong parent child connections.
About Pam Oatis, MD
PediatrIcian
Parent
Life Partner
researcher
coach
Pediatrcian
Parent
Life Partner
researcher
coach
Pam and her life partner John welcomed two newborn sons and a third, when he was in second grade, to their home and lives to nurture and love forever. She has provided pediatric care to thousands, conducts research, speaks locally, nationally, and internationally. Her experience and dedication to children and families inspired her to begin writing a book, Why Good Babies Cry.
Pam has been a pediatrician for 30 years serving families in northwest Ohio at Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo. In addition to caring for patients she established the Mercy Family Care Team to serve children with complex illness ensuring medical care and resources including Hand in Hand Parenting.
Why Good Babies Cry
In Dr. Oatis’ first book, she will offer perspectives and tools to strengthen connections with infants and babies in their first year.
Bonding & Connecting Tools
Six listening tools for building, maintaining, and repairing those vital connection-based relationships.
Listening Partnership
Special Time
Playlistening
Staylistening
Setting Limits
Parent Resource Group
Bonding & Connecting Tools
Six listening tools for building, maintaining, and repairing those vital connections-based relationships
Listening Partnership
Special Time
Playlistening
Staylistening
Setting Limits
Parent Resource Group
Download my best tips and guidelines for Listening Partnership
Listening Partnership is an intentional adult-to-adult relationship of exchanged listening with respect, care, confidence in each other with no advice, interruption, or judgment while keeping confidentiality to ease the stresses of care giving.
My tips will help you:
- Replenish attentive energy for your child
- Build confidence in parenting
- Offload tensions, upsets, and feelings of exhaustion in a safe place with your listening partner
- Express love for your child and partner
- Strategize solutions for day-to-day challenges
Download my best tips and guidelines for Listening Partnership
Listening Partnership is an intentional adult-to-adult relationship of exchanged listening with respect, care, confidence in each other with no advice, interruption, or judgment while keeping confidentiality to ease the stresses of care giving.
My tips will help you:
- Replenish attentive energy for your child
- Build confidence in parenting
- Offload tensions, upsets, and feelings of exhaustion in a safe place with your listening partner
- Express love for your child and partner
- Strategize solutions for day-to-day challenges
Additional Highlights of Why Good Babies Cry
What to expect from the book
Key neuroscience facts related to early child development
Evidence based model for
successful caregiving in a baby’s first year
Understanding your infant and baby’s emotions
Listening skills for everyday life that turn struggle into connection
Stories of strife and triumph
Recent Posts
Parenting in a Stressful World
Pediatrician and parenting coach Pamela Oatis, MD talks about supporting yourself through the stresses of parenting and how to instill resiliency in your children.
Dr. Pamela J. Oatis, 2011 Ohio Pediatrician of the Year
Pamela J. Oatis, MD, has been a pediatrician for more than 30 years, serving families in north west Ohio. In addition to hospital and outpatient care, Dr. Oatis obtained local and federal grant funding over a number of years to develop a Family Care Team serving children in Ohio with complex illness.
Research
Listening-based parenting strategies promote stronger parent-child connection,
Pamela Oatis, MD, analyzed and presented data on the impact of Hand in Hand’s six-week introductory class for parents from 250 English-speaking and 72 Spanish-speaking participants.
