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 may empty out everything built up during your pregnancy. This normally occurs within 12 hours of birth, and if it doesn’t occur within 24 hours this may be a sign of intestine complications.

Your Baby’s First Month

Throughout the first month of your baby’s life they are going to poop different colors, typically dependant on their diet and what they’re fed every day. Toddlers that are formula fed should poop very much firmer, while breastfed toddlers poop out a seemingly sweet smelling, lighter colored feces.

Babies that Poop A lot more than Usual

If you chose to breastfeed your newborn baby be expecting them to poop a lot. Normally 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. Infants who are formula fed should not be having as many bowel movement as toddlers who are breastfed.

Toddlers 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 infants have about 1 bowel movement daily. If it’s been longer as compared to a week for breast-fed toddlers, or longer compared to 3 days for formula-fed toddlers, contact your doctor immediately.

Green and Dark Colored Poop

Sometimes babies poop out green or black colored feces. This can occur to every baby, and there are a variety of things that cause this. Several things that could possibly cause green or black baby poop are high iron diet, too much dairy feeding and jaundice.