I think this is one where you need to speak to your health care providers. Let them know that you are breastfeeding, and that it's important to you. The laxatives do not pass into the breastmilk, and there is no issue with the light anaesthetic.
It sounds like the prep for colonoscopy makes mothering difficult - there is the frequent and sudden need to drop everything and go to the toilet. If you proceed with it at this point you may need some-one around you to help out. It would be important to keep breastfeeding where possible. Feeding EBM is an option, but if your breasts become full and engorged they will limit the amount of milk they may - it's probably just as easy to feed the baby as to express. Thankfully, you don't need to eat or drink much to make milk just fine. But you may need support for yourself.
I haven't had this procedure but i wanted to chime in that when DD was 7 weeks old XP and i broke up (well, we had a week of back and forth and then decided it was over when she was 8weeks old) and during that week i had 4 consecutive days when i ate nothing. And i mean absolutely nothing. I drank about 1 or 2 litres of water a day (i basically ate and drank when i was hungry and thirsty but i was so distressed by it all i couldn't eat, i just cried all day) but i didn't eat at all. Finally on the 5th day i had some toast and my appetite kicked in hard and i was able to eat normally after that. During that time DD fed in her regular way and i had plenty of milk. In fact i was only thirsty when i fed her so goodness knows what would have happened to me if i'd not been BFing, it was a really hard week.
So though i'd check out the drugs, i wouldn't be overly concerned with having to have a few days of liquids/clear soups as regards your milk supply.
thought I would update you all - went through it all yesterday and today and fine. All clear and baby B survived my milk without any incident. Most of the prep was done after he was asleep so that worked fine. Just had one feed of EBM when I was at the hospital.....
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