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10 mo not digesting her food!?

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I feed my daughter things like eggs, ground beef and turkey, apples, carrots, peas, beans, and millet; mostly organic, and breastmilk.  I haven't given her anything new to eat recently.  Ever since yesterday morning, she has had loose stool that clearly has undigested vegetables and millet.  There is nothing in her stool that looks like meat, egg, or fruit though! She hasn't had a problem like this before.  Anyone have suggestions as to what I should do? I am wondering if she has a bug that is making her a bit sick, but she has no other symptoms.  Thanks!

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Babies generally don't produce adequate quantities of amylase (enzyme needed to digest starches) until their first set of molars are in.  It's very normal for grains and vegetables to pass through relatively intact.  The protein foods you listed are able to be digested at this age, though, so you don't see those coming out looking similar to how they went in.

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