Poo: strange bits (sorry!)

[Lucy123]

My dd is now 6 months. She's been on solids for about 6 weeks or so, but we gave up on fruit (all fruit) as it gave her indigestion.

Anyway that may or may not be relevant, but yesterday i gave her a bit of banana (thinking it's less acidic than other fruits) - I cooked it and seived it. Yesderday evening she was most uncomfortable and her poos (one yesterday evening, one this morning) have had lots of little black things in them. Yesderday's was also a bit runny, but today's is absolutley normal yellow gunge, but with these little black bits in.

I'll be leaving fruit for a bit longer (and by the way, has anyone else had this? all the baby books seem to suggest pear makes a good first dinner), but what are the little black bits???

that's completely normal banana poo - the black bits are the little banana seeds that you see going down the middle of the banana. I do remember being a little alarmed the first time I saw it, before it twigged!! They're far too small to be seived out. (must admit it never occurred to me to do anything to a banana than mash it up!!)

You'll get used to seeing much of what she eats come out virtually unchanged - have you tried spinach yet??

thanks elliott - that was my first thought, but they seemed too big for that. I guess they ganged up together. Anyway yes, I only cooked and seived it as we have previously had problems with fruit. Next time (and I'll leave it a bit) I'll just mash it.

Looking forward to spinach!

the ones ds produced looked a bit like black squiggles - slightly sperm like- (sorry to be graphic!) - not like little black circles. Does that help?

Oh raisins!!! I was terrified when I spotted my first raisin nappy...

Try feeding carrot one meal and spinach the next. DS1 produced some super swirly patterns from that.

Oh, I do apologise, I need to get out more...

I've had half grapes plus most of the below...

Well, I can't add to this conversation yet, but it is fascinating ..........

Oh I remember my daughter eating 3 packs of raisins and then.....

It as like pure cake mixture pouring our of her bum, she managed to miss the toilet it was coming out so fast!

Tinker!

How about sesame seeds...little white dots through poo...major panic until i remembered having given ds a breadstick covered in them.
Or beets...looks like blood in the poo.

I remember changing the nappy of my friend's ds who had been given spinach the night before... a particularly leaky cloth nappy that leaked green sludge from all ends. I was pregnant at the time and retching, and all I could hear was the voice of my dh calling from upstairs, 'Stop it, you'll give the boy a complex'!!!

How about kiwi fruit, or sweetcorn!