Newborns After a baby is born, poop changes as the baby grows, changing color, frequency and shape! After the birth of a baby, there is nothing new mothers and fathers are more concerned about than their baby’s food, drink and poop. Among them, the baby’s poop is what they have to pay attention to every day, how is the color of the poop, how many times it has pooped, is the poop shaped? …… However, they are often the more they look at the more strange, the more they look at the more confused. The reason is that the baby’s poop is just too varied. Fetal stool, really black Normal newborns more than 12 hours after birth to start defecation, the total amount of fetal stool about 100 to 200 grams, fetal stool is mainly by the fetal period of intestinal secretions, bile, swallowed amniotic fluid, as well as fetal hair, fetal lipids, shed epithelial cells, etc., in the intestinal tract, the state of the viscous, the color of nearly dark green, at a glance, looks dark, usually no foul smell. Breastfeeding, soft stool, golden yellow If the baby is breastfed, and breast milk is sufficient, most babies in breastfeeding 2 to 3 days after the stool from dark green gradually changed to yellowish green, with the exhaustion of fetal stools, and ultimately transitioned to the golden yellow soft paste stool. Because breast milk is rich in oligosaccharides, can fully stimulate peristalsis, therefore, most of the baby’s stool will not have a hard stool situation, and will not have a clear odor, occasionally slightly green and slightly dilute, or ointment-like, uniform, with a sour taste and no foam, this situation is normal. Eat formula, stool rough, yellow sometimes with green with formula-fed baby stool less, usually dry, rough some, the color is usually yellow or golden yellow, slightly with some sour smell. Formula-fed babies sometimes stools will be yellow with green or greenish, this is because the formula milk iron content is relatively high, when the baby’s absorption of iron in the milk powder is incomplete, the excess iron will make the stools with green. White particles in the stool Breastfeeding or formula-fed newborn babies, sometimes found in the stool some white particles, this is due to the newborn baby’s gastrointestinal immaturity and digestive enzymes of the digestive tract is not fully mature, resulting in incomplete digestion of fat and the formation of fat, as the baby grows up, the white particles in the stool will gradually disappear. After adding complementary foods, if the baby eats more vegetables and fruits, the stool will become fluffy. If the baby eats more fish, meat, milk and eggs, the baby’s stool will become smelly. The more you grow up, the number of stools becomes less and less Newborn babies have accumulated 9 months of fetal stools must take advantage of frequent defecation in order to remove the clean, 3 to 5 times a day defecation, usually need to continue for 2 to 4 days, dark green fetal stools in order to exhaust. Breastfed babies have a greater variation in the number of bowel movements, usually more frequent in the neonatal period, 2 to 5 times a day. Some newborn babies have stools on their diapers at every diaper change. It is normal if the stools are more uniform, not too watery, do not contain mucus, or occasionally come with a few milk lumps. As the baby grows older, the number of bowel movements will gradually decrease, and the number of bowel movements will decrease to 1 or 2 times a day for babies aged 2 to 3 months. Some breastfed babies have been thin stools, more frequent, as long as the baby’s spirit and good breastfeeding, weight gain is satisfactory, is normal, is physiological diarrhea. General to the baby about half a year old, after adding complementary foods will gradually improve. There are also some formula-fed babies with slightly longer intervals between bowel movements, every 2 to 3 days, as long as the bowel movements are not difficult, not goat poop eggs, it’s okay. TIP 3 signals of abnormal stools Delayed elimination of fetal stools Full-term newborn babies are not discharged within 24 hours after birth, or 4 to 5 days or so, there is still no normal stools, may be digestive tract abnormalities, to take the baby to the doctor in a timely manner. Increased frequency of stools, abnormal character Stools more than 5 to 10 times a day, egg-shaped, dilute watery, or mucus foam, even with fever, may be intestinal bacterial or viral infections. Stool color change, odor Stool gray-white, clay-like, there may be biliary atresia; black tar-like stool or stool with blood, there may be gastrointestinal bleeding; jam-like stool, may be caused by intussusception; tofu dregs of stool is common in mycobacteria caused by enteritis; pungent smell of rotten eggs stool, may be indigestion of proteins; if there is a clear fishy smell, there may be intestinal inflammation. Once the baby’s stool appeared the above abnormalities, should be retained within 1 hour of fresh stool, brought to the hospital, timely examination, so as not to delay the condition.