How soon for first 'real' (non-meconium) poop?

[mrsfrenchy]

I can't remember when it was with DD1.

This baby was born a 2:35pm, started having meconium diapers around 2am (so 12 hours after birth) and continued to have meconium diapers into the 2nd day (the last one was when she was maybe 55 hours old?--so a little over 2 days)

She's now 3 days old and hasn't pooped in about 24 hours. She's nursing great and has plenty of wet diapers. My milk is in (I started leaking and feeling slightly engorged in the early AM today).

...so when should she actually poop? Everything I find online seems to be referring to newborns that are a couple of weeks old, not a couple of days old.

I'm not too concerned about it yet, but if she doesn't poop by tomorrow afternoon, I may call my MW.

[Madalyn]

I think my son's first real one had to be around day 3. I had a c section and DH changed every diaper at the hospital. I didn't change them until we got home on day three and by then they had just turned to the regular kind. I know my grandma has repeatedly told me the story of how she brought my uncle home and he didn't poop for a week so I guess some of them take a little longer than others! I hope she goes soon though because I know even at 8 months I get a little antsy when my son doesn't go for a few days lol.

[Adasmommy]

DD pooped out all her meconium when she was born. The next day she had two big breastmilk poops (and my milk had not come in so I don't understand where it all came from). Then it was five days before she pooped again. Then two or three days before the next one. I was alarmed that first week but my midwife said that was not unusual. She's 5 weeks now and finally pooping about every other day.

[hakeber]

I'm not sure with ds...It took him longer to transition from black to green to yellow than it took Emily. But A) my milk came in much faster with her and B) she was born at 40 weeks, where as ds was born at 37 weeks...i have no idea if that makes a difference, but she seems to be three or four weeks ahead of ds' development on just about everything, so I think there must be something to it. Emily was pooping mustard seeds by day three, and she has pooped approximately every hour or so ever since.

I wouldn't worry though. Every baby is different.

[an_aurora]

You're going to have a huge blowout

Meconium will change to transitional poo as soon as baby starts getting breastmilk instead of colostrum. Some mamas it takes a week, some it takes a day.

[jillmamma]

from Jan DDC! Marissa was born 4 days ago and had her first non meconium one Friday at 2 days old. Since then she has had some greenish transitional ones, but not the seedy yellow ones yet.

[mrsfrenchy]

I just thought I'd update incase anyone else has this question. I called my MW and she said it's really common for them to get out all their meconium and then need to 'catch up.' She said as long as she's started pooping a couple of times a day by the time she's a week old, its nothing to worry about.

Of course, about an hour after I got off of the phone with her, DD had a huge blow out of the normal, yellow, seedy BF poop.