My 8 mo has green mucus poop. Dairy or,,,??

[Mrshawwk]

Hi! So, I have no history with allergies, and therefore little experience. My 4th baby has had this green mucusy poop for several months. She seems fine, growing well, happy, IMO the picture of a healthy baby from a mostly WAP eating mom. She is still almost exclusively BF because I'm scared to put anything into her that might make her poop worse. She really wants food though! She also has no teeth. She's unvaxed.

My diet includes raw milk, but pasteurized cheese and yogurt (all natural/organic). From my reading most people point to dairy as the cause of green poop, but that's hard for me to imagine because none of my other kids had this problem. So, can it be anything else? I haven't changed my diet much. I did take probiotics in pregnancy for the first time. Then I ran out (after she was born) and didn't for a while, then I got some from Klaire. I've been giving her 1/3 capsule a day (just the powder, of course), but haven't seen improvement. Should I give more? Less? Should I keep her only on BM until she improves?

Thanks so very much for any input!

[mamafish9]

If it's dairy she's reacting to through your bm, then you'd need to go off it to see much improvement, probably. If dairy is the issue (and the only issue), you'll likely see some improvement in a few days, so it might be worth trying just to see if that's the culprit.

I have no intolerances, neither does DD, that we know of, and DS has a bunch (and grew just fine in spite of them), so it can happen!

[fizzymom]

FWIW, green, mucousy poop for us (DS2) was gluten and rice. So far, dairy does not seem to be an issue - though we are still not at baseline. We still are having some sleep issues that we need to resolve. The rice is what really surprised me, I would never have suspected it if I hadn't done a TED.

BTW, we also had no obvious growth issues.