After the birth of a child, young mothers pay special attention to the chair of the newborn. The contents of a diaper change as a baby gets older and can vary greatly even in healthy babies.
Instructions
Step 1
For the first 2-3 days of a baby's life, the baby's stool should be black or black-green and viscous. So the baby gets meconium - the original feces. In about one in five babies, meconium is released in the womb. However, if your baby does not poop in the first days, be sure to inform the doctor about it. The child may need help.
Step 2
From the 3rd day, the baby's stool begins to change. It gradually brightens, becoming first brown and then gray-green. By the end of the first week, the faeces change color to light brown or mustard. The consistency of the stool becomes more and more liquid every day.
Step 3
By the beginning of the 2nd week of life of an infant, the contents of the diaper become mustard or yellow, sometimes with greens. You may have white lumps of undigested breast milk in your stools, as well as splashes of mucus. A newborn's feces can be runny or mushy.
Step 4
Bowel movements can occur before, after, or during meals, or while the baby is sleeping. During feeding, some mothers note an explosive stool in the baby: the baby poops with a sharp sound, without looking up from the breast.
Step 5
When breastfeeding before complementary foods are introduced, the baby's stool can be of almost any color and consistency. Green stools with mucus, lumps of milk, or foam are considered normal if your baby is doing well and is developing well. However, if you find blood in the child's stool, you must immediately call a doctor.
Step 6
A newborn can poop up to 7-10 times a day. If your child has such stool regularly, the contents of the diaper do not have a strong unpleasant smell and does not foam, the baby feels good, do not worry, this is not diarrhea. It is also normal to have no stool for up to 10 days. You should not use gas pipes or put laxative candles if the child poops himself, his stool is soft or liquid and the absence of stool does not cause him discomfort. The indicator of constipation is hard feces, not prolonged absence of bowel movements.
Step 7
However, if the baby has hard feces, the feces have a strong unpleasant odor, the child is worried or is not gaining weight well, you should consult a pediatrician or pediatric gastroenterologist.
Step 8
A young mother should focus on the well-being, activity and development of the child, and not on the contents of the diaper. A cheerful, active baby, gaining weight well, has the right to stool of any color, consistency and frequency.
