https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:00:56 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breastfed-baby-green-poop#post-2868751 Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:22:16 +0000 jennlin821 2868751@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I believe that as long as they are not mucous-y, green is fine! </p> <p>Is you LO breastfed? I know that why my diet was fully of greens, DD's poops would be green! (I specifically remember a correlation with kale &amp; bean soup and with spinach in my smoothies :grin: ) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breastfed-baby-green-poop#post-2868749 Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:18:52 +0000 bhbee 2868749@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsbubbletea: that’s a good enough answer for me! She’s 5.5m and maybe I should just go for it with a few solids and see what happens </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breastfed-baby-green-poop#post-2868684 Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:52:48 +0000 mrsbubbletea 2868684@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bhbee: well, true to how these things are, I barely remember! Never became an issue. I think her poop just slowly got back to a more normal consistency and by then she was starting solids so it changes again? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breastfed-baby-green-poop#post-2868677 Thu, 24 Jan 2019 23:08:30 +0000 bhbee 2868677@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsbubbletea: how did this resolve for you? Searching old posts ... my ebf 5mo has had lots of mostly green poops the last 8 days. They are often almost watery, no texture just color and very explosive. Before this she had progressed to pooping much less frequently and then all the sudden this so I suspect virus maybe ... but she’s happy and eating well and all that. The timing is pretty similar to your story so just curious! She also eats too much at night ... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breastfed-baby-green-poop#post-2816786 Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:50:13 +0000 mrsbubbletea 2816786@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My almost 6mo has super green poop and occasionally it’s almost frothy and mucousy, plus it almost always shoots out of her diaper(!!). I kind of felt like this started happening after her 4m appointment. Before that, it was that crazy newborn yellow color, and she had slowly started pooping less, like once or twice a day. It made me wonder if it could possibly be the rotavirus vaccine messed up her stomach flora or something like that, but she also started eating a ton at night again so who knows. She also has started pooping at night a lot of the time, which is so annoying when those diaper changes wake her up for like an hour!! I was wondering if I should try to cut out dairy but she’s like the happiest baby and her tummy seems to feel absolutely fine other than pooping a lot, so I am probably just trying to complicate my life. I figure she’ll be thrown for a loop anyways, when she starts solids super soon, so I’ll just wait and see and hopefully she’ll go back to sleeping at night and eating less. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breastfed-baby-green-poop#post-2816772 Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:15:52 +0000 Ergggg 2816772@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 5-week old had green, mucousy poops a few weeks ago. Our doc said it was a dairy intolerance so I stopped eating dairy and we're back to yellow now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breastfed-baby-green-poop#post-2816771 Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:11:22 +0000 snowjewelz 2816771@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Super normal. Can't remember much for DD1 but I def remember DD2 having a ton of super green poops when she was EBF. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breastfed-baby-green-poop#post-2816759 Tue, 17 Apr 2018 08:05:31 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2816759@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Normal. My LO had green poop and all types of colors when he was drinking BM. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breastfed-baby-green-poop#post-2816752 Tue, 17 Apr 2018 07:21:10 +0000 peachykeen 2816752@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD2 had some greenish, foamy poops in the very beginning. They went away after maybe 2 weeks when my oversupply diminished, or at least she learned to handle it better. Both our ped and my lactation consultant said that it's normal and told me there's not actually a real thing as foremilk/hindmilk imbalance anyway. Apparently some babies thrive on a lot of foremilk and do just fine.</p> <p>If baby's not acting really uncomfortable, I wouldn't worry about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breastfed-baby-green-poop#post-2816749 Tue, 17 Apr 2018 07:07:26 +0000 erinbaderin 2816749@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, I definitely had this with baby #2. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breastfed-baby-green-poop#post-2816746 Tue, 17 Apr 2018 06:38:21 +0000 SweetiePie 2816746@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Agree that color alone is normal but foamy or mucousy with green would warrant a call to the doctor. But I think the fact that they didn’t call back means it’s probably nothing at all.<br /> When being discharged from the hospital with my now 8 week old they definitely included green in the normal colors of poop. And we’ve had plenty of green poop over here, even on formula. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breastfed-baby-green-poop#post-2816727 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 22:27:03 +0000 pinkcupcake 2816727@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Green can be either hindmilk / foremklk imbalance OR baby just digesting milk too quickly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breastfed-baby-green-poop#post-2816709 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 20:10:02 +0000 Mama Bird 2816709@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think it can be connected to oversupply. DD had this when she ate pretty much non-stop. It went away when her feedings got further apart. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breastfed-baby-green-poop#post-2816708 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 20:06:56 +0000 Foodnerd81 2816708@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah newborn poop is all kinds of crazy colors. But green and foamy could be a sign of fore milk / hind milk imbalance. My second one did have that and the green poop was one sign, but there were other signs too- i definitely had a big problem with over supply and she was super fussy and seemed really uncomfortable. I worked with my pediatrician who was also a lactation specialist on block feeding to correct the oversupply and imbalance. But if she is happy and everything else seems fine I’d chalk it up to weird poop. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breastfed-baby-green-poop#post-2816704 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:54:59 +0000 DesertDreams88 2816704@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Very normal. However, is it also in combination with mucusy poops or foamy? Then I would be just a bit more concerned, but only if it lasted weeks.</p> <p> My son had green mucus poops for a little while, and I was miserable about having to possibly start an elimination diet and very sad that I might give up breastfeeding, and then it just all sorted itself out and it was fine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breastfed-baby-green-poop#post-2816703 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:51:31 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 2816703@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breastfed-baby-green-poop#post-2816702 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:45:20 +0000 LCTBQE 2816702@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yes totally. my recollection is that the colors you DON'T want to see are white (liver malfunction I think?) and black (dried blood, eek). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breastfed-baby-green-poop#post-2816700 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:38:19 +0000 CatchAFallingStar 2816700@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 7-week-old has had green poop the last 5 or 6 poops. I talked to the nurse today and she said it’s most likely normal but she was going to ask the doctor and call me back. I didn’t hear back. Anyone else experience this? Thank you! </p>