Is it normal for a newborn to poop a dozen times a day?

The newborn poop a dozen times a day is normal with the stool characteristics, the newborn’s mental condition and other factors. If the newborn poops a dozen times a day, each time the amount is small, the stool is golden yellow, paste-like stool or a little thin, the smell is sour but not smelly, and there is no other physical discomfort and other performance, it is a normal phenomenon, mostly seen in exclusively breastfed babies with good growth and development. If the baby’s mental condition is poor, crying and restless, eating less milk, pooping more than a dozen times a day, and watery stools, pus and blood stools, etc., is abnormal, need to consider the factors of infection and allergy, parents should immediately take the baby to the hospital neonatology department for routine stool examination, to clarify the cause, and then take targeted treatment. If the increase in bowel movements is caused by milk protein allergy, it is necessary to replace regular formula with deeply hydrolyzed protein milk or amino acid milk powder.