Meet Our Staff

Jean Sala, MSN, CNM,
Jean is a board certified nurse-midwife through the American College of Nurse Midwives. She received a Bachelors Degree in Nursing (1983) and a Master of Science Degree (1988) from the University of Texas at Houston.

After practicing nursing for over 10 years in labor and delivery, newborn nursery and high-risk obstetrics, Jean followed her calling to empower women through the birth process and earned her certificate in Nurse-Midwifery through Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas in 1994. She is a certified neonatal resuscitation instructor from the American Academy of Pediatrics and The American Heart Association.  She is also a certified breastfeeding educator.  Jean is also an instructor for the Birthing From Within child birth education program, as well as a basic CPR instructor.  Her 20 plus years experience include hospital, birth center and homebirths.

Jean is fully backed by OB/GYN physicians and they are available 24 hours a day should her patients need a physician's care.

Jean opened Inanna Birth and Women's Care with her business partner Lynne Pewterbaugh in 2006 with a desire to empower women and their families through the birth experience.


 

Lynne Pewterbaugh, Co-Owner
Lynne Pewterbaugh, co-owner of Inanna Birth and Women's Care, functions primarily as office manager and birth assistant. Lynne received a Bachelors Degree in Special Education from Buffalo State University and a Masters Degree in Audiology from the University of North Texas in 1979.

Lynne has been involved with pregnancy and birth for over 18 years in various clinical settings, including two other birth centers. Lynne strongly believes that, through support and encouragement, women can birth naturally. She feels a positive birth experience can be a life-changing event for women and can serve later as a touchstone when facing other challenges. Many of Lynne's clients later remarked, "I pushed that baby out... I know I can do anything!"

Lynne is married with three adult children and has been blessed with two grandchildren.

     
 

 

 

  

Betty Fairman-Hoffman, MSN, CNM

 

Elizabeth (Betty) entered midwifery in 1991 after 15+ years of nursing experience in pediatric intensive care and labor and delivery. Her gentle, caring, and maternal nature coupled with her experience in hospital, birth center, and home births are the ideal mix of personality and skill. Betty was on staff at the first birth center to open in Denton in the early 1990's. Betty is a seasoned, wise midwife with the confidence and knowledge to handle any situation.

In addition to a bachelor's degree in nursing, Betty has a solid graduate education in nurse-midwifery from Texas Woman's University. Always striving to learn more, Betty possesses additional certifications in breastfeeding, childbirth education, and bioidentical hormone therapy. She is also a CPR Instructor and an Instructor Trainer for the Birthing From Within childbirth education program. Betty currently teaches Birthing From Within in Denton.

A Richardson native, Betty moved to Denton and practiced many years there before relocating to her current home in Plano. She considers it a privilege to provide nurse-midwifery care in the North Texas area. Her heart lies in listening to women and working with them through all the seasons of their lives.

 

 

Kathleen Steinsberger, MS, CNM

Kathleen is a board certified nurse-midwife through the American College of Nurse Midwives. She received a Bachelors Degree in Nursing (1993) from Texas Woman’s University and a Master of Science Degree (2003) from Texas Woman’s University in Dallas.

Kathleen has worked as both a staff nurse, and  a charge nurse in both high risk and low risk labor & delivery at Parkland Health & Hospital System.  There, she also taught prenatal classes for the Red Cross and acted as a preceptor and educator to new nurses in Labor & Delivery.  After working as a nurse for six years she earned her Midwifery certificate and then practiced as a nurse-midwife at Parkland for five years.

As a mother of five herself, Kathleen truly believes in a woman’s ability to birth. She believes that birth is a normal, natural process that women should be allowed to experience on their own terms, assisted and surrounded by those that support and love them.