Of the 12 LLL Leaders - that I can think of quickly, anyway - that
I've worked with over 14 years, we've had 26 children among us.
Twenty-one of those were boys.   Only 2 of the 5 girls were
firstborns, and both were unusually high need.  Right now we have 3
Leader Applicants.  All three have boys.

I brought this up once before in less specific terms, and the sense I
got from lactnet was that boys *don't* have more breastfeeding
problems than girls.  Anyone else want to run a tally - of clients, or
babies that drive us into breastfeeding advocacy, or whatever?  I
really have a strong sense that boys must have more trouble at the
start...  Or is there some other factor that seems to weight
breastfeeding advocates heavily toward boys?

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL  Ithaca, NY

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