Normal for breastfed baby? Advice please. Warning delightful nappy pic!

[MrsWeasely]

Is this normal breastfed baby poo? My baby is 11weeks and has been having mucous poos since around 4 weeks old, the past few weeks she occasionally has tiny specks of blood in the mucous. She also has silent reflux and has had tongue tie cut twice. HV, GP and paediatric consultant have brushed it off as cows milk intolerance, but I’ve been dairy free for years. I also cut out soya for a month and saw no difference. The consultant said as it wasn’t ‘lots of blood and the colour is normal’ that it’s nothing to worry about. But surely pure mucous poo sometimes with blood isn’t normal? I know breastfed poo is runny but this is all mucous.

Opinions welcomed!

That's what most of my EBF DD's nappies looked like before she started on solids!

Yes. Looks normal to me

Normal. Tiny specks blood probably just from nappy rash around anus. Nothing to worry about.

Looks totally normal to me. And I've breastfed 3 kids for 2/3 years each. I'm not sure about 'specks of blood' though, never had that.

Totally normal.

Yes normal. All three of my breastfed babies poo was the same!

Looks like an EBF nappy to me.

Hi @MrsWeasely I had similar but not straight away. Was always a bit moucousy, but also got those lovely seedy ones to start with and then it went full on moucousy with bits of blood. Because we found blood in about 3/4 times and I'd stopped the dairy etc we were referred to paediatrician. At one point he was pooing very often at about three months and several times over night and it was quite liquidy. This was after he had stopped pooing in the night so all quite worrying. It was tiring too, as often we would have to do three or four nappy changes in the night when we thought this had stopped from the early days. We never really did find out, all tests were fine and it was just one of those things. Solids massively helped and sorted his poo out, we haven't seen blood since he's been on solids.

Blood is not normal though, so that on its own does require follow up from gp.

Great, thank you everyone! That’s helped put my mind at rest. The blood is concerning but all the health professionals seem to think it’s not an issue. Perhaps I’m being an overly worried ftm but I just assumed blood and mucous meant allergy.

It looks normal to me but if you have a breastfeeding clinic or a La Leche League group near you you could approach their advisor, who will be much more knowledgeable than a HV or GP!

@MrsWeasely blood in our case didn't mean allergy. I wondered if it was an anal fissure which despite what doctors say is possible in b fed baby- read a few studies. However, I would still want that investigating. Blood is not normal and should be investigated, not just left.