Your Baby’s First Poop
While pregnant your baby’s digestive system is started-up by consuming amniotic fluid, skin cells, and bile. The first time your baby poops they are going to empty out everything built up during your pregnancy. This normally arises within 12 hours of birth, and if it doesn’t occur within 24 hours this may well be a sign of intestine complications.
Your Baby’s First Month
During the first month of your baby’s life they may poop different colors, mostly dependant on their diet and what they’re fed each day. Infants that are formula fed should poop much firmer, while breastfed babies poop out a seemingly sweet smelling, lighter colored feces.
Toddlers that Poop More than Usual
If you chose to breastfeed your newborn baby be expecting them to poop a lot. Typically your baby will be pooping after every time it’s fed for the first few weeks after birth. Watery feces is not an abnormality for breastfed toddlers. Toddlers who are formula fed should not be having as many bowel movement as babies who are breastfed.
Infants that Don’t Poop Enough
A month after birth it’s normal for your baby to poop less. Especially breast-fed infants, who seemingly poop all day during their first month, will begin to have drastically less bowel movement. On average, after their first month babies have about 1 bowel movement daily. If it’s been longer than a week for breast-fed toddlers, or longer as compared to 3 days for formula-fed toddlers, contact your physician without delay.
Green and Black Colored Poop
Occasionally infants poop out green or black colored feces. This will occur to every baby, and there are quite a few things that trigger this. Several things that may well cause green or black baby poop are high iron diet, excessive dairy feeding and jaundice.