I agree with Jack that a mother may breastfeed as soon as she is awake and
alert enough to hold her baby, BUT, many inhalational anesthetics are very
fat soluble and are taken up by the mother's tissue, to be released slowly
for hours and days later!  As they are fat soluble, they do get into milk.  I
do not know, without doing a literature search, which drugs or how much of
each may be absorbed by the infants when taken orally.
Nancy Wight MD, IBCLC
San Diegi, CA, USA

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