is this normal?

[Baby~Braatens~Mama]

Hi ladies! I am bfing my very first baby and everything seems to be going well. Milk came in two days after he was born and his dirty diapers changed from meconium to green to yellow curd as it should. He is 13 days old today. For the last two days his dirties are different. There are just as many dirty and wet poos as last week, but now there seems to be a green tinge to the diaper under the curd yellow. My dp says I am just worrying too much, and tried to convince me that it was the new diapers (we just started him on size ones the day of the creepy green undertones.) Do you think it is possible? Could it just be the way the new diapers absorb the wet? Or should I think about getting baby to the doctor? He seems healthy, and content and is nursing well.

I have been keeping him on the boo he starts on for longer, seems like when he hits the hindmilk he wants to pull off and until I realized he was leaving early I was latching him onto the other so perhaps we had a small hindmilk/foremilk imbalance, but if this was the case I don't understand how his diapers could have been so "normal" until recently. Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated! TIA

[MonkeysRUs]

Yellowish green (even green sometimes) is certainly a variation of normal, and if your baby is content then it's nothing to worry about.

[PatioGardener]

normal!

if baby is growing well and content, then the only poo I worry about is when there is blood.

If baby is not gaining enough or is fussy/in pain, dairy in mom's diet and/or overactive letdown can cause those symptoms plus green poo.

How is his weight gain?

eta: http://drjaygordon.com/pediatricks/general/poop.html

[Llyra]

Greenish tint is FINE. No worries. The green poos that you want to worry about foremilk with are the ones that are very green--- often foamy, too. Normal breastmilk poo can vary from yellowish-green, to bright yellow, to mustardy-yellow, to even orangey, and it's all fine and normal. No worries.

I wouldn't worry, too, if very soon the frequency decreases a lot-- it's normal around two or three months for them to start "going" a lot less often. As long as it's ample, and soft, when it does come, they can go even like two weeks without pooping, and it's fine.

FWIW, sometimes babies have been exposed to and are fighting off a virus, and the only sign we ever see is changes in the stools-- some green, for example, for a week or two. If that's the case, you don't need to do anything-- baby's immune system will do all the work. But it's good to know that it might be happening.

My kids all had some ODD looking changes in their diapers, from time to time, and they were always fine. As long as baby is gaining weight and thriving, I wouldn't spend too much time stool-gazing. You'll drive yourself crazy.

[ameliabedelia]

All my kids have had green poo at some time. As long as he's growing, eliminating plenty and happy, I wouldn't worry.