Poop Problems - Page 2

[expat-mama]

To continue the poop discussion... What SHOULD a breast fed and solid food eating baby's poop look like? 

DS had kind of play doughy solid turd-shaped poops that he was having a bit of discomfort with, I increased liquids a bit, not he's got poop that is like someone smeared peanut butter in his dipe. What is the norm here? I have no idea.

I miss the easy days of breast fed baby poo. It smelled much better too!

[Terrilein]

I think there is a normal is very widely defined here. I think as long as your baby is neither pooping little hard rabbit pellets like OP's baby (constipation) nor having extremely watery stools (diahrrea) then you're doing ok. Fritz is all over the place with his poops in form and frequency if that's any help for you.

[Knitting Mama]

Originally Posted by Terrilein 

I think there is a normal is very widely defined here. I think as long as your baby is neither pooping little hard rabbit pellets like OP's baby (constipation) nor having extremely watery stools (diahrrea) then you're doing ok. Fritz is all over the place with his poops in form and frequency if that's any help for you.

I think this is pretty much the best answer. Some BF babies' poops have curds, some do not, some are more liquidy, some are more mushy. Cecilia's are also all over the place, and very dependent on if she actually ate any solids that day or not. As long as it's not rabbit pellets or diarrhea it's probably normal for your babe.

[Llyra]

My kids pooped anything from total runny liquid to peanut butter, in the breastfed days. Then on solids, it varied from liquid, to formed like adult poo. DD2 was more prone to liquidy, DS and DD1 to more solid-ish poo. DD2 didn't stop pooping total liquid, varying from green to yellow to orange, a lot of the time, actually, until she was entirely weaned. But by a year old, DS had formed, brown stools. All of them have healthy digestion now, and grew normally, and after awhile I just stopped watching poop.

[expat-mama]

LOL- I can't wait till I get to stop watching poop! I guess for now I'll keep my eye on it but only worry when it's hard or dry.

DS strains so much more now to get this goopy stuff out though. He was pooping when he was "talking" on skype with my mom and she freaked me out by saying "oh! watch out he might get a belly button hernia straining that hard!".... Now I'm paranoid about that!

[Terrilein]

If his poop is mushy then he can't be straining that hard. If it looks like normal adult poop, then yeah, he needs to "push" more. I've never heard of a baby getting a hernia from pooping where constipation wasn't an issue. It's probably mostly show. My ds gets this totally bewildered, concentrated face ("something's going on somewhere and I can't explain it!") when he needs to poop and he grunts while doing so, too.