Another poo question! Green, mucousy poo....

[legallyblond]

Sorry to ask! I just prefer asking this ort of thing here to googling... whenever I google I manage to convince myself of some horrific disease!

DD is 15 weeks old and ebf. she is not unwell at all and has no temp etc. However, last night her poo was greenish and had slightly bloody mucous in, exactly like when you blow your nose and it is very slightly pink... so hardly any blood at all, but still... Generally she has been pooing a lot more the last few days - a couple of times a day rather than every 2 days.

I am taking her to the doctor this afternoon (yes, over paranoid 1st time mum!), but what do you think?

I think she's teething.. could it be that? Or something I ate? A cow's milk intolerance perhaps? I was intolerant of cows milk but, as my consultant predicted it would, the intolerance disappeared during pregnancy (my body wanted the calcium more then the intolerance!) and I have been continuing to have cows milk as I am ebf....

Any thoughts welcome!

yes, could be teething. or just a simple infection.
as long as she is fine in herself and drinking plenty there is no need to worry.

Yes, she's fine - no temperature, alert and smiley and drinking as normal, every 2 or 3 hours... so I can't work myself up too much, hence seeing the docs this afternoon rather than this morning.

I was just going to post exactly the same when I saw this.

Yesterday DD's (13 wks) nappies were just as you described, green and mucousy.

For the last week she's been chomping furiously on her fists and dribbling so much she often has huge strings of drool.

I was wondering whether it was a bit early for teething? I've just been googling baby diarrhoea but she's showing no other signs of being unwell and is generally happy.

I've fed her a bit more today (little and often instead of waiting for her to ask) and she's produced 3 poos that are progressively more yellow/normal looking.

Going to the clinic in half an hour so I will ask then, and let you know.

Sarahlou - snap with DD chomping on fists (and everything else) and drooling for Britain. I'll also post after seeing the doc this afternoon.

Hi legallyblond,

Just back from the clinic and she said it's perfectly possible for it to be teething even if the teeth still take a while to show. It can cause diarrhoea when the baby is otherwise well.

My DD has put on no weight at all in the last 2 weeks though (I've just posted a separate thread on this) so I've got all sorts running through my head now. Is she fist chomping through hunger? Does a bout of diarrhoea really make so much difference to her weight?
Hope your visit is a bit more reassuring x

just thought i'd update (bf so excuse typos and lower case!)... had a really interesting gp visit on this topic on monday. v informative.

my gp's husband is a consultant paediatric gastro-enterologist (sp?) so my gp is rather well-placed to answer!

she said she has come across this many times in otherwise well bf babies (the blood streaked mucus in stool, sometimes greenish). her husband, the consultant, believes it is "breast fed proctitis". basically, this is where the mother has eaten an allergen, usually cows milk protein, and this has caused very minor inflamation within the baby's gut, causing the bloody mucus. however, this is not a bad thing and does NOT mean the baby is allergic. instead, this proctitis is breastfeeding's way of actually preventing allergies. the exposure to the allergen and the reaction of the baby's gut (inflamation and the bloody mucus) prevents the baby from being allergic when they actually come to eat the allergen. she said its a bit like a live vaccine: the baby's stomach reacts to the allergen in the bm, but because of the exposure and reaction, the gut builds up a tolerance.....

isn't breast feeding clever?!