Stools Of A Breastfed Baby?
2009 August 13
I keep reading about diarrhea in babies, and how you are supposed to watch for it. My son has always had runny poops. (he is 6 weeks). He is exclusively breastfed and does seem to have a lot of gas. His diaper will just look like it is stained yellow, with very few, if any, piles or small solid pieces. Sometimes there seems to be mucous. Is this normal for a breastfed baby? How will I know if it is diarrhea?
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My son is 10 weeks and breastfed. His poops range from pumpkin orange to yellow and are very runny and leak out the diaper often. Sometimes it looks like he has cottage cheese mixed in. From what I’ve read and the movies I watched in the hospital, it is all normal.
Ian is still breastfeeding at 14 months. Until he started solid foods (stage 1-gerber) he had runny yellow stools with the seeds..once in a while they’d be a little more firm, but still runny. I called his pedi several times terrified that he had constant diarrhea, but she said as long as he was nursing and acting normal it wasn’t anything to worry about bc breast fed babies generally have runny stool….even now during his teething periods where he eats less his stool with be that same yellow and seedy look. If you get really worried, give your pedi a call, but I’d say it’s normal. Best of luck!
this is normal… my son had a lot of poops when he was younger but I called them watery farts…cause it wasn’t a lot but it was often and then as he got older there were less watery farts and bigger deposits of poop…
I wondered the same thing and the only thing people could tell me was
“Oh you’ll know if it is diarrheaa…”
diarrhea is profuse, smelly, gag me nasty….and usually accompanied by a bad diaper rash
your baby sounds normal to me
its not diarhea, its completely normal. when my baby was breastfed in her first few weeks of life she had the same thing, yellow poop with small pieces that look like seeds.
Normally if it’s diarrhea it will be green and more frequent than normal.
your baby has solid pee or looks like crystals???? your baby is dihydrated, call your doc asap