Weaning poo

[themissus]

Mini me has been eating veg or fruit purees for about 2 weeks. She'll go a couple of days without pooing and then do several little ones a day, for a day or two. They're very different from her solely breastfed twice weekly poonami's. Bone dry and rolling about the nappy when I take it off - is this normal? Still taking a good amount or breast milk, and I am trying to get water down her, without much sucess.

[Flamebat]

Yup - it all goes haywire for a while when weaning starts... a few days of the very dry type stuff, then a while with really sticky stuff, and eventually onto proper poo.

I miss breastfed poo

[littlepiggie]

bf poo is so easy, ds poo has lumps of whatevers he ate the day before.

[themissus]

thank you good to know that dry poo is normal. Things i miss about breastmilk poo; 1. I could hear it coming, 2, and i have to admit this, a certain pride/satisfaction when she did a big un.

[littlepiggie]

totally agree about hearing them, ds seems to sneak them out now.

[yellowpoo]

Should i be worried, my brestfed, weaning five month old, has very liquidy and slimy poo, nothing dry ir remotely solid.

[yellowpoo]

Should i be worried, my brestfed, weaning five month old, has very liquidy and slimy poo, nothing dry ir remotely solid.

[yellowpoo]

Should i be worried, my brestfed, weaning five month old, has very liquidy and slimy poo, nothing dry ir remotely solid.

[themissus]

I guess if she is content and gaining weight then not too much to worry about. Mini me has been grumpy & v windy since weaning, but two things seem to be doing the trick now: new foods to be tried at breakfast or lunch, so we are not coping with any belly ache at bedtime, and giving her fruit before veg, not after,(ideally 15 mins before the veg). Apperently fruit breaks down faster than veg so if it's fruit for pudding it sits on top of all the veg fermenting and producing gas that can get trapped and give belly aches if prone. Poo still dry though!

[MillyH]

Hello missus. My DD - six months just started weaning two weeks ago. Sounds like she is doing something similar. She was a breast fed poo volcano on a regular if not quite daily basis but since starting solids we have had a couple of the little round balls of dry poo and nothing else.
I am kind of hanging back on amounts and introducing more meals as even though it is flying in the top end it's just not coming out of the bottom end. I've even resorted to prunes a couple of times but with no real effect.

Does anyone know when 'weaning poo' become proper constipation? She is beginning to look rather bloated on it, but I might just be being neurotic (again )

Anyone had this sort of problem? I in a strange kind of fear of giant poo explosion, but would be delighted if it happened. Motherhood is weird stuff !

[themissus]

They've started to get a bit bigger!! We just had a few raisins to start with. I think that their little stomachs must extract almost everything!I spose no harm in getting the doc to give her belly a feel if she seems miserable. Given up on the water as the tiny mount she was prepared to take was making no difference.

[LRWG]

Am so glad to find this thread as hubby has just asked me a question I have no clue how to answer.

DD had steamed carrot sticks yesterday for the first time (am trying BLW). She sucked on but I didn't really think she'd eaten much if any. However, today's nappy has the evidence in the form of orangey carrotty lumps (sorry - TMI). I know it's not a problem and was kind of expecting it but when I told DH (oh, to have a romantic non-poo related conversation - sigh) he asked why her digestive system hadn't mushed it all down and absorbed it. Must admit I was stumped for an answer and wittered something along the lines of, "it's still learning what to do".

Does anyone have a more grown-up answer I can astound him with tonight please?

[LRWG]

Just a 'bump'

[LRWG]

No takers on the poo question asked by DH? C'on ladies, would love to appear clever

[themissus]

A brief bit or research: chewing food coats it in saliva - this starts breaking down fats in food. Chewing also increases the foods surface area, making it easier for the stomach to digest. Small babies dont really chew, so the food is harder to digest. Secondly small babies dont yet have all the digestive enzimes that they need to completly break food down, hence chunks of dinner in the nappy at the end of it all! never thought i'd be so in to poo!!

[AitchTwoOh]

good one, themissus, and nice to think you have a new hobby...
also if you are feeding purees, lwrg, you never really know how much of the digestive work is being done on the stomach as you have already 'chewed' it and increased the surface area for them. dd is ten and a half months old and still has lumps in her nappies. i asked people about it on the blog and everyone said much the same. that surface area thing makes sooooo much sense, now that i think about it.

[terramum]

To add to the chewing & digesting thing - DS (28 months) got his first set of molars nearly a year ago now (2nd set still no show yet) but he seems to have only just got the hang of using them properly - its only been in the last few months that his poos have definately got more anonymous iyswim - very hard to tell what he had been eating . There are still things he eats that come out whole or in bits: seeds, raisins & anything he wolfs down quickly but for the most part he chews his food really well now.