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My 16 days old daughter has diarrhoea - what do I do?

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Badgerwife · 09/08/2011 16:03

The title says it all really. She has very wet stools, I can only guess it's diarrhoea, what do I do?

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fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 09/08/2011 16:05

don't all babies that age have wet stools?

SoupDragon · 09/08/2011 16:05

Breast fed or bottle? either way, I think it is unlikely to actually be diarrhoea though... Newborn baby poo is very wet (only really familiar with bf baby poo though)

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Badgerwife · 09/08/2011 16:05

There's wet and wet I guess... How do you know the difference then?

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Badgerwife · 09/08/2011 16:06

breastfed

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Badgerwife · 09/08/2011 16:06

she was having nice grainy and seedy mustard poo and it's turn into a right custard (sorry TMI!!)

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Danthe4th · 09/08/2011 16:07

Pretty normal to have explosive poo that ends up all the way up the babies back and leaking out of the sides of nappies, as far as I can remember anyway, isn't it just the babies guts getting used to milk.

LIZS · 09/08/2011 16:08

If they're wet and bright yellow, with a sweetish smell, then that sounds normal , if mucousy and pungent perhaps not.

fuckityfuckfuckfuck · 09/08/2011 16:08

Have you eaten anything different? Onion used to irritate my youngest when I was breastfeeding.

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Badgerwife · 09/08/2011 16:49

Friends have been bringing us food but there's been nothing controversial. Maybe she doesn't like garlic bread...

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fuckityfuckfuckfuck · 09/08/2011 16:54

In all seriousness, the garlic could be the culprit. I hope she feels better soon :)

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Badgerwife · 09/08/2011 17:12

Thanks a lot, I will try to relax.

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HerdOfTinyElephants · 09/08/2011 17:14

BF babies' poo varies hugely from one poo to the next, and sometimes it is virtually fluid or custardy. It's very unlikely that there's anything wrong.

SofiaAmes · 09/08/2011 17:17

If she is exclusively bf, then there is nothing to worry about. Different babies just poo differently. My ds was pretty textbook and my dd only poo'd once every 7-10 days. We saved a lot on nappies!!! I ate completely normal diet which in my case included lots of garlic and spicy food. Nothing had any effect on either of them.

Sidge · 09/08/2011 17:20

True diarrhoea is liquid like water.

Pasty, sloppy and custardy poos aren't likely to be diarrhoea.

And remember in a breastfed baby there is very little waste, so not much left to turn into proper poo!

Octaviapink · 09/08/2011 19:29

Get used to liquid mustard - you've got a few months of it yet! Seriously, it all sounds fine.

thisisyesterday · 09/08/2011 19:31

they're supposed to be very liquid at that age. the kind that soak right into a nappy

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Badgerwife · 10/08/2011 15:16

Thank you! I shall now go, take a deep breath and enjoy the mess.

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