Acorn Community Birth & Wellness Center Our Story

Margo’s love for children brought her to midwifery. After graduating from nursing school in 1975, she worked in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles, and there she began to notice that moms that reported a more positive birth experience seemed to have a closer relationship with their children. So she started working in Labor and Delivery in 1980 to help moms with that transition to motherhood. While there she discovered that the journey that brought families to that moment really began much sooner. At that point she went to midwifery school and became a Certified Nurse Midwife in 1993 so she could be present for the entire journey that families take. Since 1993 Margo has worked at four different LA hospitals; opened a home birth practice in 2001 and then a Birth Center in 2013.

Since becoming a midwife, she has delivered over 3000 babies. She believes that pregnancy and birth present a blessed opportunity for a woman and her family to realize their own strength, as they become a family. She finds such joy and honor in accompanying them on this amazing journey and she is confident that she has the skills to provide the safe space they need to realize their dreams. To ensure that midwifery care remains an option for birthing families and their future children she is dedicated to educating future providers in medicine and midwifery.

She is the proud mother of three wonderful sons and has also been blessed with four amazing grandsons. After retiring in 2023 she moved to Temecula to be closer to family. She loves morning walks and gardening but missed being with pregnant women and their families. Fortunately, Acorn Community Birth and Wellness Center had a space for her to practice what she loves, midwifery.

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” -Helen Keller

Since my beginnings in retail customer service, I’ve been successful at getting my foot in the door of many different types of service professions, which finally led me to the wonderful world of social work. Along with my ‘once-upon-a-time’ college education in psychology, lifelong volunteer work, fervent interest in social justice, working with children and neurodiverse adults, and diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) training/ practices, my journey has created little opportunities to understand and support others. Eventually, I co-founded and built a DEI program that has now been adopted by an international social organization with more than 30,000 members worldwide.

I first came to Acorn Birth Center as a client! My 1st baby was born at Acorn in August 2023, in the most incredibly beautiful and fulfilling way that I ever could have hoped for. (Fun fact: I’ve been lovingly told that I hold the Center’s record for longest labor. Call me cheesy, but I’m quite proud of that!) All jokes aside, I have found such peace and serenity at Acorn. I’m profoundly grateful to my birth team for their warmth, love & dedicated care of myself, my baby & my family who attended my birth. Now, I find myself even further blessed to be the Office Manager here, and call my birth team my coworkers! It means the world to me having the opportunity to help my community in a whole new way.

I've known my wife, Rose, since high school and married her in 2014. In my free time, I love creating art & crafts, performing with the award-winning San Diego Chorus, being in nature (especially camping), spending time with friends & family, playing tabletop role-playing games, walking our dogs, and learning how to be a mom to my baby, Caiden.

Greetings, my name is Kyra. I am a dancer, a reader, a tree hugger, and soil lover. I pursued my bachelors education with Cal Poly Humboldt of Northern California, I hold a BS in Environmental Science and a BA in Journalism and Dance. While pursuing my degree the world shifted and many of us became isolated during the pandemic; during this time of quiet I felt a whispering towards midwifery.

In 2022 I officially began my journey into the birthworld through the Earthwise Birthworker program, an herbalism and emergency austere doula program with the Human Path School. At the recommendation of a fellow doula, I also pursued grief and bereavement doula training with the Stillbirthday program. Today, I am thankful to be a student midwife with Acorn.

I am here to listen to the stories of wombxn, to witness your fears and celebrate your joys. I am ardently dedicated to learning my own body and supporting others in investigating and tending to their womb and life cycles.

I believe in choice. That each of us has the right and power to choose how we enter this life, how and when we give birth to new life, and how we exit this embodied life. It is my intention to provide evidence based information, individualized care, and unwavering support so that each birthing person may confidently make decisions for their unique being and expanding family.

It is an honor to be walking alongside you during this sacred transformation.

I am Azul, I am a Partera Profesional, a Mexican midwife. I fell in love with midwifery after a meditation course when I was finishing high school. After that I started my journey to become a midwife, I studied one year in a hospital-based midwifery school and discovered I needed a different path. I finished my career studies in a midwifery school in Michoacán, Mexico called Mujeres Aliadas. During my training I had home birth, birth center, and hospital experiences. I have worked in México with independent midwives in home births, in teams with obstetricians in hospital births, and the last time I worked in a birth center called Casa Aramara.

A few months ago I decided I wanted to travel and know more about midwifery outside of Mexico and become certificated to work internationally. This is what brings me to Acorn. I love being witness to the power of woman’s and babies’ natures and essences.

As part of my training in Mexico I have learned traditional techniques to support pregnancy such as prenatal massage, rebozo adjustment and a traditional closure ceremony called “cierre de cadera” that I’m happy to share here during my stay.

Hi, I’m Sally. My journey into birth-work began with the pregnancy of my first child as I was encouraged by a family member to become educated about childbirth and routine hospital practices. Three hospital births and three homebirths later, I was blown away by how much better I was cared for by my midwives in contrast to the OB model of care. I desire to give all moms the same care and education that my midwives gave to me. I strive to help mothers make informed decisions about their own births and to have confidence in their own bodies and the pregnancy and childbirth process. I encourage each family to make evidence-based decisions for themselves so that they can feel the strength that comes from autonomy and accountability. I believe that caring for and educating a mother doesn’t just help her have an empowering birth experience, but affects the way she will mother her child, and therefore can change the world, one mother and baby at a time. I feel called to help families approach childbirth as a positive, fun, exciting and happy experience.

I have been assisting a local midwife in her homebirth practice for three years and I’m grateful for the privilege I have to continue learning with the knowledgeable, fun and committed women at Acorn.

I have been married to Stephen for 29 years and we have six children. We find purpose and peace in our faith and our family. I enjoy exercise, journaling, nourishing food, and striving to live an abundant life.