Dear Kimberly,
I see no reason to wean in order to donate a kidney. I donated my kidney 
1 year ago, and although I was not nursing, there was nothing special 
about donor nephrectomy that would require nursing. The woman would be 
screened, accepted as a donor, lie down in the operating room, go to 
sleep, have her kidney removed laparoscopically (2-3 hour surgery), wake 
up, and go home in 1-3 days.
The issue might be that because it is an elective surgery, the surgeons 
want to do no harm, and want to make sure that they are not going to 
mess up any health issues for the donor. So, the donor just needs to say 
that she is perfectly comfortable with donating a kidney while nursing.
They also might have a blanket policy about how long a woman needs to be 
postpartum in order to be eligible for donation.
If she really wants to be the donor, then she will find a surgeon to do it.
You need to be careful that she herself might be leery about donating, 
and might be looking for an excuse from you to not be a donor, since it 
is a scary prospect.
Anne Eglash MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Dept of Family Medicine
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
600 N. 8th St.
Mount Horeb, WI, 53572
608-437-3064 (O)
608-437-4542 (fax)

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