Virginia Apgar grew up in the early 1900s with a determination to succeed and the belief she could do anything she set her mind to. She worked hard to pay her own way while going to college and medical school, eventually becoming a doctor and one of the first anesthesiologists in the United States. She worked in labor and delivery, helping mothers with the pain of childbirth. She discovered not many doctors knew how to care for the newborns so she invented a method to check their health using five tests, later becoming the APGAR Score, which was created using her last name by another doctor in 1961. The APGAR Scale has saved many babies over the decades since Virginia's invention and is used around the world to test babies at birth. Virginia Apgar is an inspiration to females around the world as she overcame many obstacles and worked hard to achieve success and in turn, has saved the lives of countless babies around the world.