James' poop changes from yellow to green and back with almost every other diaper. I wondered if this was common. Here is something interesting that I found:
Tarry black poop, your baby's first poop, is called meconium. You'll never see it again once it passes.
Mustard poop is common for breastfed
babies. Supposedly breastfed babies make sweeter smelling poop. I don't know about you, but I've yet to meet a poop I'd call sweet.
Green poop is normal in the realm of baby poop. "Green", "poop", and "normal" all in one sentence. It's so surreal.
Orange poop is also par for the course. I don't know if it's a par 3 or par 4. It's definitely not a birdie.
Yellow poop - hello yellow! (It's late, I'm tired, and I'm running out of cutesy ideas.) Yellow is normal.
Multiple color and color-changing poop - as long as the colors are listed above (sans meconium reference), there's nothing to worry about. Baby poop changes colors on a frighteningly regular basis.
Chalky white poop could indicate that there is no bile from the liver to digest food. Call the doc.
Tarry black poop, when NOT the first poop, could mean there is blood in the digestive tract. Call the doc.
Bright red blood in poop means blood has been expressed very close to the anus (i.e. no time to turn black.) Call the doc.
Blue poop can only mean
one thing...
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So, before I clicked to find out about blue poop, in my head I thought I was pretty funny thinking, "You're a smurf!". Ahhh. We must be children of the 80's.
I thought of the Smurf's too! Welcome to the delightful realm of motherhood. :)
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PS, all the best. :)
...and then you start examining it every time and giving a running comentary to your husband. And then when he changes a diaper you ask him about it....haha!
As for the white poop, a very, very serious and deadly liver disease called Alpha 1 is the cause of this. Sadly we are carriers in our family and have had a death because of it.
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