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Family Forum / Pregnancy / Breastfeeding / July 2006Green poop?
Is this normal? DD started off with yellow grainy poops in her first week of mostly breastmilk (at about 14 days old). Then it went to yellow mucousy poop. And now she's been having green mucousy poop. I thought yellow was normal, but is green ok too? I read somewhere, and now can't find where, that a different colour indicated dehydration, I thought it was green, but maybe it was black/brown. Hi -- Green poop can indicate several things. The most likely is that your baby has a cold and is ingesting some of the mucous the cold produces. The second possibility is that she's getting too much lactose-rich foremilk and not enough of the fatty hindmilk that you produce. You can solve this by having her nurse at just one breast per nursing session rather than switching between them. Dehydration leads to very dark stools, as I recall. Let us know if this helps, --Beth Kevles bethkevles@aol.com http://web.mit.edu/kevles/www/nomilk.html -- a page for the milk-allergic Disclaimer: Nothing in this message should be construed as medical advice. Please consult with your own medical practicioner. NOTE: No email is read at my MIT address. Use the AOL one if you would like me to reply. > Hi -- > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > solve this by having her nurse at just one breast per nursing session > rather than switching between them. Hmm, there's no fever or indication of a cold per other symptoms. She usually just feeds from one breast at a time, though now she's on a marathon so she is getting both breasts, but only after she stops on one, which can be anywhere from 10-20 mins. I'll have to pay closer attention. The green poop isn't every poop, but probably 3 out of 8 today. > Dehydration leads to very dark stools, as I recall. They're not that dark, fairly light green, so that's good. > Green poop can indicate several things. The most likely is that your > baby has a cold and is ingesting some of the mucous the cold produces. > The second possibility is that she's getting too much lactose-rich > foremilk and not enough of the fatty hindmilk that you produce. It is POSSIBLE that green poos mean this. But they can also occur for no apparent reason. I wouldn't worry about changes in colour without any other indications -- changes in colour in adult poos *can* be meaningful too, but we don't all peer into the toilet after we've been... well, at least, I don't!  SignatureChookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled." Kerry Cue > Is this normal? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > where, that a different colour indicated dehydration, I thought it was > green, but maybe it was black/brown. The most likely IMO would be a foremilk/hindmilk imbalance. If you've been giving both breasts at a feed, you could just leave her on the one breast for longer. Green poop is in the normal range though, and extra foremilk won't be hurting her. It's passing through her digestive system faster, hence the colour. She will likely go for longer between feeds and sleep longer if she's getting the fatty hindmilk though, as it will take longer to digest and satisfy her hunger. You'll probably find she's taking in more foremilk in the mornings when the supply is most plentiful, and more hindmilk in the evenings, which she'll need to feed for longer to get. SignatureAmy Mum to Carlos born sleeping 20/11/02, & Ana born screaming 30/06/04 http://www.freewebs.com/carlos2002/ http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/a/ana%5Fj%5F2004/ My blog: http://spaces.msn.com/members/querer-hijo-querer-hija/ > > Is this normal? > > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > the mornings when the supply is most plentiful, and more hindmilk in the > evenings, which she'll need to feed for longer to get. Just to add to this... I found that single-side feeding was way easier to manage and it did take care of our green-poop appearances. I'm not even going to try that switching-after-15-minutes business with the new one, I don't really see a lot of point in it. It seems pretty arbitrary, to me. (Although for the newborn three-hour marathon feeds, maybe switching every half hour just to give the other side a break is in order. :) > > > Is this normal? > > > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > maybe switching every half hour just to give the other side a break is > in order. :) that's where we are at. I don't switch her, I let her go on one side til she drops off. I usually offer it a few more times before she makes clear she's done. Well, we had a few more green poops over night but it's back to yellow now. > Just to add to this... I found that single-side feeding was way easier > to manage and it did take care of our green-poop appearances. I'm not [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > maybe switching every half hour just to give the other side a break is > in order. :) Just to add my two cents too! I only nurse one side per session, unless I notice the baby's poo coming out green. Then I would start with the side I nursed on the previous session, and nurse until she dropped off but was still hungry. Then I knew for sure that side was empty and she'd had the hindmilk. That's probably kind of weird, because the hindmilk is supposed to fill them up, but of course, the volume wasn't there. That would turn her poop neon yellow! I really don't think it's terribly important, as long as the nursing is going well, it's just interesting to experiment and see what doing different things accomplishes... Stasya |
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