Whether a baby’s stool is normal or not is a barometer of the baby’s health. By observing the baby’s stool, such as color, shape, and frequency, you can understand the baby’s physical condition and serve as a basis for determining whether the child is sick. After food is eaten into the body, nutrients will be absorbed and used by the body, the rest of the digestion and absorption of incomplete waste, residue, will become excrement, through the feces to toxins and waste out, forming a normal, healthy body cycle. Healthy baby’s poop 1, fetal stool, dark dark green. It is made up of epithelial cells shed from the fetal intestine, intestinal secretions, bile and swallowed amniotic fluid. 10~24 hours after birth will be excreted fetal stool, sticky, no odor; 2, breast-fed children stool, golden yellow. Mostly uniform paste, sour taste, no odor, occasionally small milk clots or thin green; 3, formula-fed children stool, pale yellow. Stool is dry, mostly formed, containing more milk clots, larger, alkaline or neutral, more, more odor, 1-2 times a day, sometimes constipation; 4, after the addition of complementary foods baby stool, yellow. After the addition of cereals, eggs, meat, vegetables and other complementary foods, stool properties close to adults, once a day. What causes green stools? The color of the stool is closely related to the chemical changes in the bile. The bile in the upper part of the small intestine contains bilirubin and bilirubin, which give the stool its yellow-green color. When the stool is pushed to the colon, biliverdin is reduced and transformed into bilirubin, which makes the stool yellow. Breastfed babies have acidic stools, and under the action of intestinal bacteria, some of the bilirubin is transformed into biliverdin, making the excreted stools light green, which is a normal phenomenon. If your baby eats milk well and has a normal general condition, you don’t have to worry about it, it’s just a temporary phenomenon and will improve as your baby grows up. If your child’s milk is cold, or if your child’s abdomen or feet are cold, your stool may turn green. This is because the cold will cause the intestinal peristalsis to move too fast, and the bilirubin in the colon will not be reduced to bilirubin in time, so it appears green. This is one of the common causes of green stools. Green stools caused by this cause may also have symptoms such as a cold. If you only have green stools, keep your abdomen warm, especially at night, and you will recover in a few days. If there are cold symptoms, symptomatic treatment for the cold should be given at the same time. Hunger Some babies do not eat enough, hunger will speed up the intestinal peristalsis, green stools appear, the baby has crying and restlessness due to hunger, the amount of stool is small, mucus, easy to distinguish from other cases. This situation can be solved by increasing the amount of milk and letting the baby eat enough. The reason for this is that formula milk generally includes a certain amount of iron, which is dark green after it passes through the digestive tract and comes into contact with air. The baby’s green stool is related to the individual’s physical condition, age, intestinal pH, intestinal bacterial growth status, and dairy product composition (such as iron), but as long as the baby’s spirit and activities are normal, there is no need to worry. Parents should be highly alert to the following stool colors Dark red: If there is abnormal tissue or polyps inside the intestine, it can cause abnormal bleeding. Also, it may take some time for the stool to pass through the intestine, and during this time, the color will not be bright red but dark red because the hematocrit will interact with the bacteria inside the intestine. Bright red: It means that the bleeding is not far from the anus and may be caused by anal fissures when the stool comes out. Black: If the bleeding is from the upper gastrointestinal tract, like bleeding from the stomach or duodenum, the color will be black. The higher the GI bleeding, the darker the stool will be, the closer the bleeding is to the anus, the more red the stool will be, and the middle GI bleeding, the darker red or coffee colored the stool will be. Blood on the outside of the stool: This is usually due to a hard stool that causes anal fissures, in which case you will see a hard pile of stool with blood on the outside but not on the inside. Mixed stool and blood: If the problem is internal to the bowel, you will see blood mixed with the stool. For example, if there is bleeding in the small intestine at a high level, you will see brick-red stools and the stool and blood are mixed together. White clay-like stool (beige, white, yellowish): normal stool will appear yellow or green because of the bile, but if the stool is off-white and looks like white clay, this indicates that the baby’s bile duct is blocked and the bile is not flowing into the intestines, so seek immediate medical attention. Baby’s Tips If you go to the hospital, it is best to take a picture of your baby’s stool or bring your baby’s stool (wrap the diaper with stool in a plastic bag) to facilitate the doctor’s diagnosis. Also, write down what your baby usually eats so that the doctor has a reference, which is all important for the doctor to diagnose the condition.