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!
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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).
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Yep!
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Green can be either hindmilk / foremklk imbalance OR baby just digesting milk too quickly.
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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.
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. -
Yes, I definitely had this with baby #2.
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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.
If baby's not acting really uncomfortable, I wouldn't worry about it.
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Normal. My LO had green poop and all types of colors when he was drinking BM.
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Super normal. Can't remember much for DD1 but I def remember DD2 having a ton of super green poops when she was EBF.
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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.
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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.
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@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 ...
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@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?
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@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
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I believe that as long as they are not mucous-y, green is fine!
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 & bean soup and with spinach in my smoothies
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