I was asked for an opinion on this piece recently: http://www.benthamscience.com/open/toepij/articles/V002/26TOEPIJ.pdf
A mother I know with a severe prolapse needed surgery was wondering if the hormones of lactation would impede recovery. We know that prolactin does a lot of different things, hundreds. It's a busy hormone that has been present since at least when we were fish - they use it for salt regulation. There are prolactin receptors in many places in the body. It is likely that there would be ongoing physiological changes to other body systems during lactation and we need more research on this. We know that women who breastfeed are less likely to have hypertension later in life. There are systemic effects which are ongoing, and presumably these are normal and natural because we are meant to lactate. 

Miranda

Miranda Buck, RN, (Paeds), IBCLC
PhD Candidate
Mother and Child Health Research 
LaTrobe University
Melbourne

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