Hi, Laurie:  The contents of your post smacked me upside the head in a DUH! 
moment.  Why would a doctor be telling a nursing mom to wean because she 
needs surgery and he is concerned about wound healing when 35% of brand 
new breastfeeding mothers today in the US are recovering from a C-section 
which is MAJOR ABDOMINAL SURGERY!  And in my hospital, they are ALL 
breastfeeding and we have no issues with wound healing and breastfeeding 
with our C-section moms.  I sincerely hope no doctor's thoughts stray down 
this path!  Just what we need, yet another reason to not breastfeed!
We also occasionally do the "tummy tuck" in conjunction with a C-section.  A 
few years ago, one mom decided to take care of it all at once since it was her 
last baby.  She had a repeat C-section, a tummy tuck and a "boob lift" (not 
totally sure what she had done, but it was neither a complete augmentation 
not was it a reduction).  She did nurse this last baby.
To each her own, I guess.


Pam Hirsch, BSN,RN,IBCLC
Clinical Lead, Lactation Services
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
Barrington, IL   USA

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