Ellen, Your stats were interesting, but I'm not sure how you got them. The US has approximately 4,000,000 births/year, and there are approximately 4000 (+ or -) IBCLCs. That leaves 1 IBCLC/1000 live births; or 1 IBCLC/570 mothers who choose to bf. (About 57% of US moms initiate bf in the US). I'm not quite up on the exact numbers of IBCLCs in the US since the 95 exam, but when I did the stats that were published in Parenting Magazine a year or so ago, it was approximately 1 IBCLC in the US for every 780 bf moms. Kathy Zettervahl -- how many IBCLCs are in the US and in the other countries? You would know better than anyone.... Jan Barger