Margie Kline, LM, CPM began her work with women and babies in 1995, serving as a doula, birth & breastfeeding rights advocate, and midwife in New Mexico until relocating to Arizona in 2005. She began her formal midwifery education at Aviva Midwifery Institute in 2009, interning for several months in a high volume birth center in El Paso, Texas, and a busy missionary birthing home in Tay Tay, Rizal, Philippines. She gained additional clinical experience working with a homebirth midwifery practice and a birth center in Phoenix. In 2013 she received her national certification from the North American Registry of Midwives and her Arizona state licensure. She is a member of the Arizona Association of Midwives. Over the course of her career she has observed, assisted, or served as primary midwife at over 700 births.

One midwife and one or two assistants consisting of Registered Nurses, Trained Birth Assistants, Nursing or Midwifery Students. Although it is rare, if there are two women in labor at the same time we have other midwives willing to help. Babies are rarely born at the same time or even the same day in such a small practice. During the rare times when that happens I can often finish the delivery at the first birth, turn postpartum and newborn care over to the RNs and head to the next birth with a different crew of assistants.

Yes, doulas are a welcome addition to any birth. Hiring a doula at a home birth is highly recommended. While not a requirement this extra care can lower your risk of needing medical intervention especially for first time moms or long labors. Women find they receive a lot of extra attention and loving-kindness from both doulas and midwives during a very important transition of becoming a mother.

We encourage fathers or the family member(s) of your choice to attend prenatal visits, and birth classes with you. During the birth fathers are welcome to help receive the baby, and cut the umbilical cord if both parents are comfortable with this. Mothers may have the person or persons of their choice attend their birth. Children are always welcome. You are in control and there is no limit.