Ginger K. Breedlove has been involved in maternity nursing for 25 years and in nurse-midwifery for more than 18 years. She is Director of Nurse-Midwife Associates at St. Luke’s-Shawnee Mission Health System in Kansas City, Missouri and senior nurse-midwife faculty at the University of Kansas School of Nursing, Nurse-Midwifery Education Program. Her research interests are adolescent pregnancy, social support, and hope