Tamara Walker - Oklahoma Birth & Postpartum Doula, Childbirth Educator

10/26/2025

10/25/2025

It's almost time for our FREE Stroller Meet Up at the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden!

Join us at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday and explore the zoo before it opens alongside a Mercy pediatrician, plus other parents with their little ones! Reserve your spot (plus a maximum of two adult guests): mercy.net/okczoo

10/23/2025

Breastfeeding has long been linked to a reduced risk of breast cancer, but how it has this effect isn’t entirely clear. Now, scientists have found that women who have breastfed have more specialised immune cells in their breasts, which may keep malignant ones in check.

Previous research suggests that the risk of breast cancer – the second most common form of cancer in the world – is reduced by 4.3 per cent for every one year of breastfeeding, with the protective effects perhaps particularly benefitting older mothers.

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2500663-breastfeeding-causes-a-surge-in-immune-cells-that-could-prevent-cancer/

Image: Svetlana Repnitskaya/Getty Images

10/19/2025

10/17/2025

10/16/2025

We need your help! Oklahoma Mothers’ Milk Bank is experiencing high demand. If you’re an approved donor, please bring in your milk as soon as possible.

10/16/2025

Sending love to all who have experienced the grief of loss.

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day serves to promote greater awareness and support for the estimated 1 in 4 individuals and families whose lives are irrevocably altered by the death of their children during pregnancy, at birth, and in infancy.

Today, October 15, has been set aside as the day that we remember all those families affected by pregnancy and infant loss. May we remember each one by lighting a candle and saying a prayer.

10/14/2025

10/12/2025