![]() A look into the futureīaby’s poop, just like the rest of them, is going to keep changing, and the next big shift will happen when they start eating solid food. Diarrhea can be a sign of an infection, a food allergy, or a reaction to a medication. Diarrhea usually clears up on its own, but if it sticks around longer than a day, it’s a good idea to check in with your doctor, just to be safe. On the other hand, watery or runnier-than-normal poop, especially in large amounts very quickly, could be diarrhea. If you notice something like this, it’s a good idea to check in with the doctor. Poop that is hard or pellet-like (either small and dry or large and hard) is probably signs of constipation, which can be caused by dehydration. White poop could be a sign of an infection or jaundice, while red or black could mean trouble with either fresh or digested blood.Īnd as far as constipation goes, texture is a better indicator then is the time between bowel movements. If you notice that Baby’s stool is coming out red, black or white, you should definitely call the doctor. There are some changes in color and texture that could mean trouble though, so it’s important to know what these are. Some variation in Baby’s poop is normal, and most color changes (from yellow to green to brown) just have to do with how much time it takes them to digest. Formula-fed newborns often poop less often than breastfed ones, so as long as Baby is developing healthily and gaining weight the way they should, any pattern they get into is probably healthy. This means that their regular stool may be thicker and more solid in texture, may be more yellow-to-brown than yellow-to-green in color, and may be stronger smelling. ![]() Newborns who are formula fed from the start, as well as those who have transitioned from breastfeeding to formula-feeding, will have a slightly different texture of stool, because Baby may be able to digest less of the formula. What kind of newborn stool is normal if I’m feeding Baby formula? On the other hand, though, they may poop as often as after every feeding, since they can metabolize breast milk so easily.īaby’s stool texture will probably be fairly loose and soft, with a curdled quality from the milk solids, ranging from yellowish to greenish. ![]() If you’re breastfeeding, Baby’s pooping schedule, when they settle into one, may be pretty infrequent, because your breast milk may be well balanced enough for Baby’s system that there won’t be a lot of waste. What kind of newborn stool is normal if I’m breastfeeding? And if they have been pooping a lot, which is common in breastfed newborns, they may settle into a pattern of pooping less often. As they get a little older, this pattern will even out pretty quickly, and by the time Baby is about 3 weeks old, they will probably be pooping on a pretty regular schedule. This could be as many as eight times a day, or as infrequently as every other day, or even more infrequently in some rare cases. ![]() Baby will probably start by pooping between three and five times a day, before settling in to the schedule that’s right for them. Now that Baby is a few days old, they will probably have finished excreting most of the meconium that coated their intestines during pregnancy, and will have moved on to a fairly liquid, yellowy-green mixture, though little dark flecks of meconium may show up in their new, yellowish stool for a little while longer. If Baby seems healthy, has relatively soft stool, and is gaining weight, there’s probably nothing to worry about. There is a lot of variation in what’s normal for newborns and their pooping habits. Learn how to analyze your newborns bowel movements Before Baby came into the world, you may not have wanted to spend much time thinking about anyone’s bowel movements, but it’ll be a while before they will be able to tell you in words if something is wrong, so in these early days, what’s coming out of their digestive tract can speak pretty loudly. ![]()
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