DD just pooped a chunk of pepper...

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DD is 8mo, been BLW since 6mo. She eats more or less anything I put in front of her.
Last night we had pasta bake (turkey breast, red peppers, mushrooms, tomatoes, cheese), she wolfed it down
But she's just done a poo, with a chunk of red pepper in it. It looks exactly the same as it did when I chopped it!
Is that normal? I've seen bits of partially chewed food in her poo before, but this looked like she had just swallowed it whole should I be worried that she's not chewing her food?!

Nah, they all do this. I remember Dh calling me anxiously 'Pol! Look at this in DD's nappy! What is it? What's wrong with her?' It was a sultana, completely intact but bleached white during its transit through her innards . Worth making sure her food is cut up small enough to prevent choking but I'm sure you're doing that already.

Someone on here once opened their baby's nappy to find the poo looking at them - apparently, stick-on googly eyes also pass through a baby's digestive system unharmed...

at the Googly eyes
She didn't cough or seem to be struggling to swallow anything last night...maybe she's like her dad and just wolfs down food that quickly, chewing has become superfluous

The in and out process for babies is quicker so somethings are not digested as you expected i had a mum at work show me a nappy with a half grape in it

Normal

Have you given her sweet corn yet?

Moln yes she's chewed on baby corn, which did come out but it was so tiny I didn't really think anything of it! But this chunk of pepper really surprised me!

Sometimes they forget to chew

She probably just swallowed it then. If you swallow sweet corn it comes out whole too.

Apparently it's also fun to give them blueberries then let your DH change the nappy. The resulting purple poo can cause quite some alarm

We've had a bright green poo before...thanks to copious amounts of broccoli that was eaten. But not had a purple one yet

This is a bit horrible but I once fed my then 10m old some sugar snap peas/mangetout (never know what they're really called) and the next day, to great alarm, I thought is saw loads of worms in the toilet.

Cue investigations with a cotton bud and a paper plate and they turned out to be the rather indigestible fibres that you get where the 'join' is.

Sorry anyone eating lunch!