bf baby and poos.. sorry!

[Martha200]

I hadn't paid too much thought about it until someone (think I pay too much attention to other people's comments) pointed out that supposedly bf babies don't poo much.

Well, ds2 is nearly 6 weeks and yes as person had pointed out poos a lot, which made me think that somewhere I had heard they don't.. I would say most of his nappies are pooey ones (and I change them frequently!!) is that normal, or when does it become classed as 'diarroah'.. they are a sandy yellow kind of colour which I took was healthy. The amount he feeds of me, well it has to go somewhere.. so just curious really.

[Martha200]

(i don't know any bf mums to ask in person yet, so sorry if seems a bit silly)

[ILikeToMoveItMoveIt]

BF ds used to poo after nearly every feed when he was little. It seemed to settle down as he got older.

There isn't a normal, so don't worry

[chibi]

there is a lot of variation i think + this is ok. A friend of mine's baby pooed once every 5 days. Mine pooed several times a day. (I am referring to when they were 6 week olds!)

Are your baby's poos normal for her ? I mean does she usually poo several times a day or is this a sudden torrent after a dry spell?

I think if it were diarrhea you would have a pooey nappy every nappy change - you'd be changing them fairly constantly.

[PortAndLemon]

Some bf babies quit pooing so much at around a couple of months old -- some will go every couple of days, some every week to ten days, it varies.

But plenty of bf babies also continue pooing as though their lives depended on it. DS was like that -- like your DS2, we had a lot of poos. It is perfectly normal (and the sandy yellow colour is just right, yes), just that pooing less frequently is also perfectly normal in a bf baby. We continued on several poos a day certainly until well after he started on solids.

There's still time for your DS2's poos to space out more and you could still find that he becomes a once-a-week kind of guy, but if he stays as he is that's perfectly fine too.

[TinkerbellesMum]

BF poo is normal however it comes, some go several times a day, some weekly or more! If you have one of those babies, beware, it all comes at once!

It is really really unusual for BF babies to have diahorrea. I had it with Tink just after she came home, her nappy was full of watery pooh right up the sides of the elastic on the legs.

Normal BF poo should be runny and mustard colour and it's smell shouldn't be unpleasant(!) The time to worry normally is when it's green, this isn't a sign of illness though, it means baby isn't getting hind milk so you need to look at how the feeding is going.

[ib]

For the first 6 weeks many poos are important, it is inly after that that some (not all) bf babies poo less frequently.

[ib]

Sorry, only.

[Martha200]

Tinkerbellesmum - trying not to laugh too much at the smell shouldn't be unpleasant He stinks, really... my dh swears that ds1 who was ff was less smelly.. but I blame the foods I must be eating

Port&Lemon - glad to know ds is not the only pooey baby in existence I shouldn't be surprised as ds1 and dh are right old farters, so he is only fitting into the family

[pamelat]

my little one is almost 6 weeks old and breast fed (aside from one bottle formula at night) and poos A LOT!Probably 6 to 8 times a day, all yellow and health visitor confirmed healthy etc

I actually heard that bf babies pooed more!

[TinkerbellesMum]

Martha200, I think it's relative, I bet if you could compare you might not agree. lol

I actually meant they shouldn't be foul smelling, really disgusting, not that I was trying to say it is a nice smell or anything.

Pamelat, I think IB is right actually, at first they do/ should poo every day, but later on some slow down. My perception is probably a little warped with having a prem baby, not coming home till 5 weeks and then another week in with a mystery virus that did horrid things to her poo - of course with all that in her first six weeks she was mainly FF (NG though).