everybody does it oh especially babies and you can tell a lot about a baby's health
based on the consistency the color the smell yes i'm talking about poo now i know you probably
don't want to talk about it especially since you spend so much time cleaning it up but you also
probably see a dirty diaper every once in a while that makes you wonder is that normal
oh what a fart so your baby's very first poop is going to look
wild so meconium is your newborn's first poop and it has a very sticky thick dark green color
almost like bile it contains amniotic fluid intestinal cells bile salts pancreatic enzymes
and so much more and babies typically will pass this meconium in the first few hours
or within a day after birth you're moving you're rocking him let me tell you with our youngest it
was impressive how much meconium he pooped out at the hospital the nurses couldn't believe how many
dirty diapers he produced in that first 24 hours amar was born a little over seven pounds after
getting all that meconium out my husband said the baby's probably only going away five pounds now
okay so after your baby clears out all that meconium regular pooping starts you'll notice
your baby's poop becoming thinner in consistency and lighter in color any earth tone is common
so parents are like the color's orange the color color's green the color is a you know a different
like leafy color totally normal for it to be any color earth tone eventually in breastfed babies
you may see more yellow cd stool formula fed babies may just have more of that greenish stool
and you'll be able to see that there is a liner in here that's clipped in it's clipped in in the back
as well as in the front now he's not going to appreciate me sharing this when he's older
but this is my eldest unloading in the middle of his first bath
this was pretty traumatizing for me and my husband but that color you're seeing
apparently that's normal now dr mona says there's two colors to look out for black
and white poops this could be a sign of old blood meaning not fresh blood but blood that's
somewhere in the digestive tract that we don't know about or that was kind of digesting and
now they're pooping it out now if your child has white poop and looks yellow in the skin
this is a red flag because this can be a sign of jaundice and an obstruction in the biliary tract
the biliary tract is what gives us our colors of poop and of course red bloody poops are red
flags there's a difference between if it looks bloody or if it's just red right so
bloody may have a little bit of mucus in it you may see streaks okay so now that we've covered
all the colors of the rainbow let's move on to frequency how often should your baby poop
some babies will go every day multiple times a day but many breastfed babies will sometimes go
7 to 10 days without pooping once breastfeeding is established so it's normal to go more than a
week without pooping and it's normal for your baby to poop multiple times a day
it's really important to remember that every baby is so unique babies tend to poop around feeding
times they have something called a gaster colic reflex which is basically when you eat something
it can stimulate you to poop so you may be finding that you're doing a lot of diaper changes right
after you feed them in that newborn period now as a mom of four kids i can tell you it gets real
once you start solid foods so you are gonna see a wild ride when poop happens around that time
of starting solids so they can sometimes get constipated as liquid intake reduces right now
they're eating more food it's not just the frequency and the consistency that change
as they get introduced to more food you're gonna see the color change a lot too
and let me tell you the smell will be the biggest change my youngest now that he eats solids his
poops stink like they came out of an old man that works on ships like how long have you been at cmr
do you have scurvy they're gonna get vegetables fruits different cereals different meats whatever
you're giving your child and that is gonna come into their poop right so it's gonna smell it's not
gonna be that normal newborn poop that was just yellow and seedy and pretty basic of a scent now
you're gonna have the scent of almost adult style poop he doesn't like to get his diaper changed
now if you start seeing your baby making a face with their bowel movements don't worry they're
probably not constipated so parents will often see that their baby's pushing hard and they think that
that's constipation it may be something called infant dyskeysia infant dysthesia is basically
a discoordination of the muscle so it's not that they're constipated it's just that they're
learning well whoa i have to poop now um this is different so they bear down they make a grimace
they may turn red in the face not gonna lie seeing my baby scrunching up his little determined face
and glitching his little fist it was pretty cute so basically anything outside of what we
just talked about being normal like diarrhea you should talk to your pediatrician i mean if you had
diarrhea you probably get medical help too and i don't mean your mom the most important thing is
to look at the big picture if the child has looser poop but is gaining weight on their growth curve
is otherwise thriving is not bothered by it this is awesome if they're losing weight if
they're very bothered by it if they have a fever and most importantly if there's blood in the poop
it's really important to bring this up with your child's clinician well i don't know about you but
after all that potty talk i am pooped thank you for watching seeker baby i'm angel akita moore
and i hope you're learning as much about babies as i am if there's a baby topic you want us to cover
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