Let's talk baby poo 💩 You know you want to! Here's our guide to what's normal and what's not – with colour charts, texture charts and even real nappy pics (if you're brave enough!) baby babies parenting
Your baby's very first poo looks dark green or black. It will be sticky – almost like Marmite. That's because what's in your baby's first nappy isn't really poo at all but a substance called meconium.
Your baby should pass their first meconium-filled nappy within 24 to 48 hours of birth. Over the next couple of days, your baby's poos will continue to be dark green and sticky."As your baby starts to digest milk – breast or formula – their poo will gradually turn from dark green to a lighter green, then a greeny-yellow, then a creamy yellow or orangey brown in colour," says Dr Philippa.
You'll also find that, now that your baby's bowel is being stimulated more by the regular arrival of milk, your baby's poos may get a little bigger and more frequent – roughly 4 a day, maybe more if you are breastfeeding. For more on poo frequency, see"Breastmilk poo is really runny and soft," says Dr Philippa, "in fact as soft as diarrhoea. It's almost creamy in consistency and it can also have grainy or seedy flecks or look like it is curdled .
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