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Post by sarahandben108 on Dec 22, 2017 17:23:40 GMT -6
Hello all. I'm currently breastfeeding my second son who is two weeks old. For the past week all of his poop has been dark green. It has the seedy consistency that breastfed poop should be. He had the normal mustard colored poop up to this point. At 6 days old he was back to birth weight and he appears to be growing. I'm going to put a call in to my doctor but I was wondering if anyone else had any experience with green poop. He can be pretty gassy but doesn't have any colic like symptoms. TIA!
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Post by loony on Dec 22, 2017 17:42:58 GMT -6
Is it dark green and slimy? If it's a little green and he isn't having major tummy issues, it can be a totally normal thing.
Both of my kids had MPI (milk protein intolerance) and had slimy green poop with lots of gas/crying. DD's ended up with some blood streaks before we figured out the issue.
We were dairy free for the first 9-10 months of life and then they grew out of it (thank goodness!)
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Post by gimmesugar on Dec 22, 2017 17:58:14 GMT -6
No personal experience except for the occasional off-color stool, but here's some info from Kellymom. It could be a foremilk/hindmilk imbalance if baby switches sides to frequently. kellymom.com/mother2mother/m2m-green-stools/ |
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Post by cmb on Dec 22, 2017 18:23:29 GMT -6
Green in babies is okay. Our pedi said it had to do with milk moving through digestion too quickly. If adults have green, they have salmonella. A random tidbit I didn’t know until I asked about green baby poop
That said, if it’s constantly green and accompanied by ridiculous gas/colic, you’re probably looking at M(S)PI
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Post by sarahandben108 on Dec 22, 2017 18:31:43 GMT -6
No personal experience except for the occasional off-color stool, but here's some info from Kellymom. It could be a foremilk/hindmilk imbalance if baby switches sides to frequently. kellymom.com/mother2mother/m2m-green-stools/I'm actually wondering if this is our case. He doesn't switch sides when feeding but he likes to nurse himself to sleep and he often passes out pretty quickly. I'm wondering if maybe he's getting a lot more foremilk than hindmilk when he's using me as a pacifier. |
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Post by sarahandben108 on Dec 22, 2017 18:34:11 GMT -6
Green in babies is okay. Our pedi said it had to do with milk moving through digestion too quickly. If adults have green, they have salmonella. A random tidbit I didn’t know until I asked about green baby poop That said, if it’s constantly green and accompanied by ridiculous gas/colic, you’re probably looking at M(S)PI He's not really colicky. He does have a lot of gas but can push it out fairly easily and often. And he poops a lot. I was/am worried about MSPI or a milk intolerance but when I look at the other symptoms he doesn't have them. No reflux, no wheezing, hardly any spitting up, and he's gaining weight just fine so I'm not sure. |
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Post by Taitai on Dec 22, 2017 19:52:00 GMT -6
I'm going through the same thing right now - about half of DS2's poops are brownish green. He's breastfed and isn't overly colicky or gassy. He does poop often - I'd say 3-6 times per day. He is a chunker and in the 87th percentile for weight. My pedi says it's no big deal - there might be a MPI issue, but if so, it must be really mild.
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Post by sarahandben108 on Dec 26, 2017 18:58:44 GMT -6
Thank you to those who responded. I did take my son to our pedi. Apparently green poop is normal and is excess bile that doesn't get reabsorbed back into the body. Just as a precaution she did test for MSPI and it was negative.
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Post by Taitai on Dec 26, 2017 23:27:31 GMT -6
Thank you to those who responded. I did take my son to our pedi. Apparently green poop is normal and is excess bile that doesn't get reabsorbed back into the body. Just as a precaution she did test for MSPI and it was negative. Thanks for posting this update! LO is still having slimey green/brown poo and MSPI is unlikely. Did your Dr. mention what causes the excess bile? Will it just resolve on its own? |
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Post by sarahandben108 on Dec 27, 2017 0:11:12 GMT -6
Thank you to those who responded. I did take my son to our pedi. Apparently green poop is normal and is excess bile that doesn't get reabsorbed back into the body. Just as a precaution she did test for MSPI and it was negative. Thanks for posting this update! LO is still having slimey green/brown poo and MSPI is unlikely. Did your Dr. mention what causes the excess bike? Will it just resolve on its own? She said it was a result of how quickly the food traveled through the digestive track. The faster it moved the less time the bile could be reabsorbed. My kid poops constantly. Any poop in the yellow, green, or brown family is normal. She didn't say how long it would last but DS did poop while he was there and she really wasn't concerned. |
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Post by Taitai on Dec 27, 2017 3:02:00 GMT -6
@srarahandben108 That is so good to get verification from another doctor. My pedi didn't explain the bile thing, but that makes a lot of sense.
Sorry for the constant poop - I can empathize. We're on outfit #3 today 😩
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Post by cmb on Dec 27, 2017 8:37:33 GMT -6
Thanks for posting this update! LO is still having slimey green/brown poo and MSPI is unlikely. Did your Dr. mention what causes the excess bike? Will it just resolve on its own? She said it was a result of how quickly the food traveled through the digestive track. The faster it moved the less time the bile could be reabsorbed. My kid poops constantly. Any poop in the yellow, green, or brown family is normal. She didn't say how long it would last but DS did poop while he was there and she really wasn't concerned. It resolves at some point. Depends on the kid and may take introducing solids (obviously when they get to the age for it) to get the digestion to slow down. Blue and purple poop are a thing with solids, btw, so don’t be shocked when you see those colors when the time comes. Blueberries and prunes tend to make weird colors when they come out the back end |
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Post by moutonrouge on Dec 27, 2017 9:23:56 GMT -6
DD occasionally had green poop while EBF that I think was caused by a stuffy/runny nose causing her to swallow a lot of mucus. She never seemed bothered by it.
If you do think it's linked to too much foremilk and you usually only nurse one side at a time, you can nurse while baby is awake (say 20 min after waking) and then repeat that side when you nurse to sleep.
Now with solids, we have a lot of purple and red poop from beets and berries.
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