Who wants to look at my baby's poop?

[dislocator3972]

Please tell me if this seems normal to you.

I've started seeing weird whitish chunks that look a bit like mozzarella in unusually green poop.

I stopped dairy forever ago, then went back on it around Thanksgiving. I saw no change after reintroducing dairy until the last few days. Does this look like a sign to nix the dairy again? Other than this she seems perfectly happy. Lots of spit up, lots of weird chunky spit up, but she seems unfazed by it. She's in no pain or discomfort than I can see.

She's been drooling pretty fiercely for a while now, and I think I can feel a tooth or two. I wonder if this could be drool related poop?

I'm not too worried because she's so happy, but I'd like to at least reduce dairy if it's irritating her tummy.

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[EdnaMarie]

Happens to my baby, and happened to the first, too. I have no idea if it is "wrong", but I know with my first I eliminated practically everything in my diet except oats, and I still got poop like that. It drove me crazy. I was feeding in blocks of six to eight hours.

I know it's not ideal, and does indicate an imbalance, but I guess it could be anything. They say it could be a virus, drool, whatever.

All I can tell you is that it is possible to have that poop and have a baby thrive. I don't know if that is the case for your baby, though.

[dislocator3972]

Thanks for looking at it. I'm getting ready to go on a month long vacation and trying to decide if I should find someone to look at my LO while I'm on vacation or if it can wait till her next well-baby visit the week after we get back.

This poop started the last business day before we left. I happened to speak to my LC that day and she said one or two weird poops are nothing to worry about, but frequent might be different. And now the poops are frequent. bah!

[Shanelovr]

we're vegan and ds's poo looks like this often. i don't think its anything strange. he ebf too and from what my ped says its normal for their poop to change from green to goldenrod and many shades inbetween. it can depend on a ton of different things in your diet, not just dairy. i'd be more apt to eliminate dairy again if i saw a negative change in your lo's attitude and general happiness, but you could ask your ped too just to be safe. it can't hurt.

[Phridae]

How old is your LO?

[changingseasons]

Green isn't so much a problem, but the mucus is. Also, if poops are getting more frequent (than normal for your babe), that's a bad sign. It could definitely be a delayed reaction to the dairy- sometimes it takes a while to build up before the reactions are noticeable. It might be worth it to stop the dairy again for a week or so and see if it goes away.

btw- why did you stop dairy to begin with? Was your babe showing other allergy symptoms? And are there any other symptoms now- changes in behavior, sleep, skin, etc.?

[dislocator3972]

Originally Posted by Phridae

How old is your LO?

3.5 months

Originally Posted by changingseasons

Green isn't so much a problem, but the mucus is. Also, if poops are getting more frequent (than normal for your babe), that's a bad sign. It could definitely be a delayed reaction to the dairy- sometimes it takes a while to build up before the reactions are noticeable. It might be worth it to stop the dairy again for a week or so and see if it goes away.

btw- why did you stop dairy to begin with? Was your babe showing other allergy symptoms? And are there any other symptoms now- changes in behavior, sleep, skin, etc.?

We stopped dairy because she seemed very gassy, spit up constantly, had lots of reflux, mucousy poops, and what seemed like a million other reasons I can't remember. We were trying everything. We saw a difference with the dairy, I tried a piece of cheese, saw symptoms come back, we cut it for a while longer. I figured Turkey day would be really hard to do without any dairy, so I thought I would just limit what I ate and see how she felt. She seemed fine, so I've been eating it (cautiously). Oh, she had a crazy face rash too that went away when I stopped dairy. Right now she seems completely happy on all fronts. She did go through about 5 days of weird sleep and nursing every hour, but that was right on time for a 3 month growth spurt, and it's settled down since then. She's happy except when she is about to spit up (sometimes) and (sometimes) when she's laying on her back. I'm not sure her upset about being on her back is reflux though, I think she just wants to be looking around. She gets just as mad if she's sitting on the floor and I'm not down there with her. Her face rash is completely gone, though the skin on her chest is rough. Not red, and it's not new, but it's oddly rough.

I've never known anyone with food allergies before (except my brother who developed a very sudden, VERY severe fish allergy as a child) and with the exception of my brother, there are no known food allergies in my family or DH's.

Right now the only symptoms I see are frequency and consistency of her spit up, and this crazy poo. My ped. brushed it all off at her last well baby, so we're seeing a different ped. in the practice when we get back from vacation. If I'm not happy we'll also see a naturopath that comes highly recommended. I'm not sure if insurance will cover that though.

I suppose I'll have to just watch her carefully while we're out of state and pay out of pocket if we have to see someone. I'm not going to let her be sick to save my pocketbook, but it seems silly to get all worked up when she's so happy.

Plus, nixing dairy will be harder when I'm not buying or cooking the food.

[Carlyle]

For us, green poo was a sign that dd needed more fat (in my milk). I started eating more fat (full fat milk products, etc), and started taking this tea: http://www.westernbotanicals.com/cfp...glish=1&type=4 and it cleared right up. Good luck!

[Phridae]

I was told that the...cheesy looking parts in poo that young was extra fat that the baby didn't need.
I'm not saying I'm right, thats just what I was told.

[EdnaMarie]

We stopped dairy because she seemed very gassy, spit up constantly, had lots of reflux, mucousy poops, and what seemed like a million other reasons I can't remember. We were trying everything. We saw a difference with the dairy, I tried a piece of cheese, saw symptoms come back, we cut it for a while longer. I figured Turkey day would be really hard to do without any dairy, so I thought I would just limit what I ate and see how she felt. She seemed fine, so I've been eating it (cautiously). Oh, she had a crazy face rash too that went away when I stopped dairy. Right now she seems completely happy on all fronts. She did go through about 5 days of weird sleep and nursing every hour, but that was right on time for a 3 month growth spurt, and it's settled down since then. She's happy except when she is about to spit up (sometimes) and (sometimes) when she's laying on her back. I'm not sure her upset about being on her back is reflux though, I think she just wants to be looking around. She gets just as mad if she's sitting on the floor and I'm not down there with her. Her face rash is completely gone, though the skin on her chest is rough. Not red, and it's not new, but it's oddly rough.

A couple of things. First of all, many babies have slight reflux and grow out of it. Some babies have more reflux and grow out of it more slowly. And this may or may not have to do with dairy, or a food sensitivity.

Also, if you are still eating dairy, even in very small amounts, but the symptoms are subsiding, that is a sign, in my non-medical opinion, that it's not dairy. I say this because every time I read these boards, I read people who eat just a tiny bit of dairy and have full-on symptoms come back.

I am not suggesting you change what you're eating if you and your child are comfortable, but just giving you another perspective to work with, if the dairy hypothesis has to be tossed out for any other reason. Though, the red face rash does sound like a food reaction. You really would need to cut dairy out entirely and for a long period of time to see if it all clears up.

As for the laying on her back- I really do think that lots of babies don't like to be on their backs. I laid mine down in a co-sleeper with blankets under it for an incline, up to about three months I suppose. Maybe less.

Your pediatrician may have been trying to reassure you. If your baby is not uncomfortable, really, there are so many things that could cause temporary green poops.

How often does she spit up? How much?

Did the rough patch start out red? Have you googled it? I have found, comfortingly, that most websited for infant skin conditions will not list the scary stuff first.

[mamaheids]

Originally Posted by dislocator3972

3.5 months



We stopped dairy because she seemed very gassy, spit up constantly, had lots of reflux, mucousy poops, and what seemed like a million other reasons I can't remember. We were trying everything. We saw a difference with the dairy, I tried a piece of cheese, saw symptoms come back, we cut it for a while longer. I figured Turkey day would be really hard to do without any dairy, so I thought I would just limit what I ate and see how she felt. She seemed fine, so I've been eating it (cautiously). Oh, she had a crazy face rash too that went away when I stopped dairy. Right now she seems completely happy on all fronts. She did go through about 5 days of weird sleep and nursing every hour, but that was right on time for a 3 month growth spurt, and it's settled down since then. She's happy except when she is about to spit up (sometimes) and (sometimes) when she's laying on her back. I'm not sure her upset about being on her back is reflux though, I think she just wants to be looking around. She gets just as mad if she's sitting on the floor and I'm not down there with her. Her face rash is completely gone, though the skin on her chest is rough. Not red, and it's not new, but it's oddly rough.

I've never known anyone with food allergies before (except my brother who developed a very sudden, VERY severe fish allergy as a child) and with the exception of my brother, there are no known food allergies in my family or DH's.

Right now the only symptoms I see are frequency and consistency of her spit up, and this crazy poo. My ped. brushed it all off at her last well baby, so we're seeing a different ped. in the practice when we get back from vacation. If I'm not happy we'll also see a naturopath that comes highly recommended. I'm not sure if insurance will cover that though.

I suppose I'll have to just watch her carefully while we're out of state and pay out of pocket if we have to see someone. I'm not going to let her be sick to save my pocketbook, but it seems silly to get all worked up when she's so happy.

Plus, nixing dairy will be harder when I'm not buying or cooking the food.

Hi Sarah! Heidi from your DDC here! I just wanted to add that Molly has been having poops that look A LOT like the ones you took pictures of. And I haven't added ANYTHING back. (off of dairy, soy, gluten, corn, oats, peas, egg and beef). She has been teething a lot though- lots of drool, which is what I was attributing all the weird poop too. Could the roughness on her chest be drool rash?