>>The physician has told the mother that she must stop nursing for one week
prior to and one week following surgery as the hormones of lactation cause
the cervix to be too vascular - that mother risks serious bleeding if she is
still nursing when the surgery is done.<<

Uh, did I miss something? He wants her to "stop nursing" just for the period
of one week before to one week after the surgery? Does he mean she should
pump and dump and then resume afterwards (like that would accomplish anything
different from nursing), or does he operate under the illusion that she can
wean for two weeks and then pick right up again? Huh? How does one wean for
"just" a two-week period?

I have nothing of substance on this topic, but I can't figure out why
lactation would cause unusual vascularization of a cervix. The body *wants*
to go into a dormancy of fertility; lactational amenorrhea means that the
hormones that involve reproductive would be low during this phase.  It is
common for women to be dry during this time, as the body does *not* want to
get pregnant. Why would she have unusual vascularization, when
vascularization would be there to  FEED a possible or present pregnancy?  If
my logic is off, I'm happy to be corrected, but this sounds like another
sacrifice on the altar of breastfeeding ignorance to me!

-Lisa Marasco, BA, IBCLC