Newborn with green poo

[PogoBob]

Never thought I'd be writing a poo thread!

DS (DC2) is 5 days old, born Monday morning, bit of a traumatic birth which left him very sleepy so hand expressed and syringe fed for the first day.

Latched on Monday night and been going great guns since, with milk coming in on Wednesday evening. Huge amounts of milk (had the same with DD).

Since yesterday his poo has been green, went straight from black/brown to green, not a single normal yellow nappy. Today it has also been 'curdy' IYSWIM.

Seeing midwife on Monday but wondered if anyone had any suggestions in the mean time, he has no wind or signs of discomfort, no vomiting or anything like that. Only lost 2% of his birth weight (9 lbs 14) on day 4 so is getting something from me!

DD had suspected CMPI so wondering if he could have the same or weather it could be down to over supply.

TIA

Green poo usually indicates only the foremilk has been drunk and not the hindmilk. Can you stay on one side for longer to get past the fore and on to the richer hind stuff? Apologies if you already know that info!

Congrats by the way. 5 days old. How gorgeous!!! Hope you are enjoying swooning in a baby bubble. Stay in it as long as poss

Thanks supper, am loving the newborn phase, can't put him down!

I'd heard something about foremilk being an issue but not sure what to do, keeping him on the breast for as long as possible but there's so much milk he hasn't anywhere near draining the breast.

Am hoping my supply will settle down.

Thanks couscous, the poor thing is offered a nipple if he so much as hints at a feeding cue!

Switching sides but the whole thing is slightly complicated by the fact I'm still feeding DD as well so trying to keep track of who had which breast when!

Thanks couscous v interesting that bf orgs no longer use that terminology. Whatever they refer to it as these days, I found that staying longer on the same side definitely helped reduce green poo.

Also, unbeknown to me, two of my DD's were not suckling brilliantly. I thought they were feeding well but there was green poo happening. Cranial chiropractic treatment significantly improved their feeding and there was no more green stuff. I highly recommend cranial chiropractic for newborns. All three of my children have had it for various things and the results have been amazing. (For info - cranial chiropractic is different to cranial osteopathy. I didn't find cranial osteo did such a great job, although I know some people do they say rate it. But cranial chiro I can vouch for. Especially a chiropractor who uses technique called SOT).