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What does your LO eat? Sometimes if mom has a large supply of milk babies can have green runny poop due to eating lots of foremilk.

Mine went through phases of green poops. There are a number of reasons I was give. (Fore milk/hind milk imbalance, introduced new food she hadn't had before via breast milk, sensitivity to completely normal). I found it went away after a few days, would sometimes come back when I had a new food or tofu specifically. Was definitely happening most often around 5-8 weeks. Now at 11w it hasn't happened in a while. I was concerned it was a soy/dairy allergy so I cut back on both of those but there was no blood in her stool ever so I doubt it was that. I'm thinking it's just her digestive system getting use to something I've eaten. If she seems happy and it's not consistent and there's no blood, I wouldn't worry. Ask your doctor if you're concerned though.

T had a lot more green poo up until 3 months. Never for longer than a day or two. Now it's rare especially since she's down to pooping once a day or two. I do have an egg allergy my ND thought was causing a bad diaper rash.

We had green poops occasionally and I would worry about it because I read here that it can be a sign of MSPI. But sometimes green poop is just green poop. DS also had no other symptoms, so I didn't ask the ped about it. At 19m he has no known allergies to anything.

I also suspect too much foremilk.

we had green poop, but I have major oversupply and forceful letdown, so I suspect that contributed. The green would come and go, but the biggest, most consistent sign of intolerance for us is mucus -- it looks like his diaper is full of boogers. We also tested positive for microscopic blood, but never saw any.

@SeptMomma12: I want to say around 8 weeks or so. At that point, I was in the same boat as you and wasn't sure what the issue was. It took another month or so to confirm MSPI.

@SeptMomma12: No worries. It was confirmed because I (stupidly) decided to test it out myself so I went off dairy for several weeks and then second guessed it and re-introduced it by eating a ton all in one day...and then my baby had terrible bloody poops for several days in a row. In our case, she had more than just MSPI (I had to eliminate alot and she still always had at least microscopic blood in her stool) so I think that's why removing just dairy didn't seem to have done much (but eating a ton at once made her worse). My LO didn't sleep well at all and was near colicky at that point though. You could definitely tell something was bothering her.

Edited to add: Of course, we also had our pediatrician confirm MSPI too. But by then we pretty much knew.

@SeptMomma12: normally you do one breast only for 3-4 hours and then switch, It's caused by an oversupply issue I believe.

@SeptMomma12: I keep telling myself this is all a crapshoot. But, I gave her the first dose of Zantac, and she nursed without screaming and spitting up. I hope they get you some meds ASAP. Hang in there momma.