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When it comes to baby poop, most new parents don't know what to expect. You may have a lot of questions. How often should your baby poop, and what should it look like? Does breastfed baby poop smell? Is green baby poop normal? Baby poop has so many shades and consistencies that ev...
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As solid foods are introduced, stools can range in color from yellow to green or brown, but Dr. Boyd encourages parents to not focus on color of poop so much as the consistency. “The most important part of baby poop is [that the] consistency should be soft,” she says. “Babies may...
year alone, with several diaper changes a day, so you'll have plenty of time to get acquainted with their bowel movements.1But duringthe precious newborn phase, it can be hard to know if your baby's stool schedule is healthy. You may be asking, "How often should newborns poop each ...
Prolific poop — at least five diapers a day for breastfed babies, sometimes more — is normal during the first month. Your baby’s poop should look mustard yellow, green or brown, and it’ll be pasty or seedy. By about week 3 to 6, the number of poopy diapers may level off, and...
Newborn Poop Sometime in the first days after birth, your baby will pass a thick black or dark-green substance called meconium; this is normal. Within a few days,a breastfed babywill begin having six to eight bowel movements daily, which will be soft, yellow-green, and sometimes filled ...
For poops, I recorded the color (mostly yellow or green), and texture (mostly mushy or solid). After we started to give him a bath 30 minutes before bed time consistently, I used that diaper change as a way of recording the start of the bath (around 6:30pm - 7:30pm). Weight I...
If you have long hair, wear it in a pony tail or braid to bed. Baby boy has a good grasp and will get a hold of the hair mid nursing if it’s not out of the way. If I don’t do this, then I end up hunting for a hair thing like a maniac in the middle of the night wi...
If Lawson begins to fuss, we have a very short window of time to neutralize the situation before we are in the crossfire of a two baby shriek-a-thon. If Gwendolyn is finally calmed down and falls asleep, Lawson climbs into the ring and tags her out. So often I am forced to attempt...