The baby’s stool is closely related to the digestion and absorption function, and is one of the important indicators to determine the health condition of the baby. If you master the nature and regularity of the baby’s stool, you can not only understand the baby’s digestive function, but also detect the baby’s disease in time. The baby within one year of age to breast milk or milk and other liquid feeding, so the baby’s stool is more dilute, more often, and sometimes the baby’s stool may often be green, so the baby stool with green is not normal? Why do you have green stools? Due to the immaturity of the baby’s gastrointestinal tract function, the bilirubin in the bile is oxidized to biliverdin under the action of bifidobacteria in the intestine, thus making the stool green. When the excreted stool encounters oxygen in the air, bilirubin will also oxidize to biliverdin, making the surface of the stool green. This situation is more obvious in infants under 4 months of age, because the baby has not added complementary foods within 4 months, and the baby’s gastrointestinal tract is more delicate during this period. In fact, the frequency, shape and color of the baby’s stool are closely related to the baby’s age, feeding style and whether or not complementary foods are added. The baby will generally defecate within 12 hours after birth, the stool at this time is fetal stool, fetal stool is made up of epithelial cells shed from the fetal intestine, bile, concentrated digestive juices and swallowed amniotic fluid, dark green, a little shiny, much like the sun-dissolved tar on the road in summer, no odor, fetal stool is generally finished within 3-5 days. If the baby does not have fetal stool excretion within 24 hours after birth, or if the fetal stool is not finished within 7 days, you should promptly go to the hospital to check if there is a digestive tract malformation and other diseases. Breastfed babies, because breast milk is rich in oligosaccharides, can fully stimulate intestinal peristalsis, so most babies will not form, golden yellow, mostly uniform paste, can have no fully digested fine milk clots, occasionally slightly greenish, no odor and foam. There are individual differences in the number of stools, generally 3-5 times a day, there may be 7-8 times, sometimes the baby can occasionally have a very small amount of stool discharge after eating milk or force, this is because the baby after eating milk gastrointestinal volume increased, causing intestinal peristalsis and increased bowel movements, called gastrointestinal reflex defecation, which is a normal physiological phenomenon. As the child grows older, the number of stools will gradually decrease, generally after 3-4 months the number of stools will be reduced to 1-2 times a day, but some babies may not be reduced to 1-2 times until 6 months of age. If a breastfed baby has greenish stools, thin stools or more frequent stools, it is normal as long as the baby is in good spirits and eating milk, has normal weight gain, and does not have abdominal distention, vomiting or fishy smelling stools. Formula-fed babies, stools are usually pale yellow or earthy yellow, dry, slightly smelly, and sometimes mixed with grayish-white “milk flaps” in the stool. Each stool volume than breast-fed babies, but the number of times less, generally 1-3 times a day. Because of the immaturity of the baby’s gastrointestinal tract, some babies may have a bowel movement once every 1-3 days, or even once every 5-7 days. If the baby does not cry and vomit, there is generally no serious problem. You can do massage clockwise with the navel as the center, 3-5 times a day, 3-5 minutes each time, and may also take oral micro-ecological preparations to regulate gastrointestinal function, such as: mamma-aid, bifidobacteria, etc. If there is no relief you need to visit the hospital to rule out congenital megacolon, congenital hypothyroidism and other diseases. Because a certain amount of iron is added to the formula, this incompletely absorbed iron is discharged through the digestive tract at the same time as the stool and turns dark green when it comes in contact with the air. If the baby has indigestion, cold, etc., the amount of unabsorbed iron in the intestines will increase, and the number and amount of dark green stools will increase. The stools of mixed-fed babies are similar to formula-fed, but are more yellow and soft. The number of times is usually 2-4 times. After the addition of cereals, eggs, meat, vegetables and other complementary foods, the stool properties are close to those of adults, once a day. After 4 months of age, babies generally start to add complementary foods. After adding complementary foods, the number of stools will be significantly reduced, the water content will also be reduced, and the stools will gradually take shape. Because the baby’s digestive function is not fully mature, as well as the added food does not adapt, the stool may be with undigested food. For example, when babies first add pureed vegetables, the stool often excrete a small amount of green vegetable puree, this phenomenon is a common occurrence in healthy infants when changing food, if the baby does not have diarrhea and vomiting and other symptoms of discomfort, generally do not need special treatment. The baby must follow the principle of gradually adding complementary foods from one to many, from less to more, from soft to hard. There are individual differences in the nature of baby’s stool, and because babies within 4 months have more stools, they are often mistaken by parents as having “diarrhea”, but in fact diarrhea must be a change in the baby’s stool from its original relatively fixed shape, color, frequency, water content, etc. Here are a few common abnormal stools and precautions: 1, gray-white stool: If the baby from birth is pulling gray-white or clay-colored stool, urine is dark yellow, the skin is dark yellow, it is likely to be congenital biliary obstruction caused. Should immediately go to the hospital, delayed diagnosis and treatment will lead to permanent liver damage. 2, egg-flake soup thin watery stool: stool like egg-flake soup, water increased, and the number and amount of bowel movements have increased. Most often seen in diseases such as enteritis and autumn diarrhea. Loss of large amounts of water and electrolytes can cause dehydration or electrolyte disorders in babies, should immediately take the child to the hospital, diarrhea, do not take the baby’s own medicine, especially antibiotics, because most of the baby’s diarrhea is caused by indigestion intestinal dysfunction or viral infection, if the abuse of antibiotics will kill the baby’s intestinal probiotics, so that the diarrhea is prolonged! 3, oily stool : stool is pale yellow, liquid, large amount, shiny like oil, in the diaper or potty like oil beads can slide. This indicates that too much fat in food, mostly seen in artificial feeding indigestion baby, generally can be solved by oral intestinal probiotics, if more than 2 weeks does not ease, you can consider temporarily change to low-fat milk, but note that low-fat milk can not be eaten as a normal diet for a long time, otherwise it will cause malnutrition in babies. 4, blood stool: stool is usually red, dark red, coffee or black. There are many reasons for bloody stools, first of all, we must see if the baby has taken iron or a lot of iron-containing food (such as animal liver), caused by pseudo-blood in the stool; if the stool becomes thin, containing more mucus or mixed with blood, you should consider infectious diarrhea; if the stool is jam-colored and the baby has bouts of crying and restlessness, to consider intestinal overlap; if the stool is tar-like black, may be the upper gastrointestinal bleeding; if it is bright red If the stool is bright red, it mostly indicates that the blood originates from the rectum or anus, and the anus needs to be checked for damage. In short, blood stool should not be ignored, all need to go to the hospital immediately. 5, bean curd-like stool: thin stool, yellow-green and with mucus, sometimes bean curd-like. This may be mycobacterial enteritis, mostly seen in malnutrition or long-term use of antibiotics, hormones baby. Babies with mycosis fungoides will also suffer from thrush and need to be seen by a hospital.