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suddenly huge numbers of dirty nappies - normal or something wrong?

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Peevish · 06/09/2012 22:32

We started our FF five and a half month old on tastes of baby porridge, fruit and vegetable purees over the last fortnight, and he's quite interested. However, over the last four or five days he's started producing far, far more dirty nappies than usual. He was always a once a day baby, then it went to twice when we started with the porridge, but yesterday he had six and today seven or eight (though some are only tiny amounts of poop.)

Is this normal, or does it suggest we're overtaxing his digestive system, or an allergy or negative reaction to a particular food? (Yesterday he had apple puree mixed with formula and porridge for breakfast and sweet potato for dinner, today mashed banana with porridge and more sweet potato.) And should we stop weaning for a bit to give his system a break? He's fine otherwise.

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ceeveebee · 06/09/2012 22:37

Sounds about right. When I first weaned my twins I once changed 15 dirty nappies in one day, a record I believe Wink

As long as they are normal looking - brown/tan colour rather than yellow/green and not watery then he is probably fine.

Peevish · 07/09/2012 09:22

Gosh, I salute you, cee. Fifteen! Grin

Some of the nappies are perfectly normal nappies, others are rather watery - they seem to vary wildly in colour, but I was putting that down to the new variety in his diet...?

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