Green Poo

[luisa1980]

Hello all. My lo is 12 weeks old and ebf. Each evening, i have noticed that her poo turns from yellow - as it is in the daytime - to green. It is not frothy as it has been with fore/hink milk imbalance, and i am not eating anything different to usual. Has anyone else experienced this or know what it might be?

The only thing I can think of is the hindmilk isn't getting to her. Do you put her on a different breast each feed? With dd1 I religiously swapped breasts each feed and saw a lot of green poo. Then I started putting her back on the same breast to solve that problem.

With dd2, I haven't seen any green poo as a) I can rarely remember which breast she had last and b) have a feel to see if the breast was emptied last time. I must look comedic, groping myself, but the squeeze helps.

Thanks OstrichSized for your response.

I have been worrying that she has not been getting the hindmilk. She has changed her feeding again recently, so she is now only on the breast for 6-10 minutes. I always use a different breast each feed, and she only feeds on one side per feed too. I will try your suggestion of putting her back on the same breast, to see if that helps.

Would you put her back for say two feeds in a row? Will that affect the other breast in anyway? She usually feeds every 2-3 hours during the daytime and then feeds twice during the night.

My 6 month takes about the same amount of feeds.

It sounds like yours is an efficient feeder. Mine can take 30 minutes sometimes but I do suspect she's just having a cuddle too.

I would do two feeds in a row usually in the evenings when she's doing a bit of cluster feeding. It doesn't affect the other breast too much, it might be quite full the next time I put her on it but she takes care of that. If it's uncomfortablely full, you could express a little from it.