How many times a day is normal for a baby to poop?

For young people who become parents for the first time, taking care of children is a science. Since they have no experience, they have to grope their way forward step by step. Because children are young and do not know how to express their feelings, parents need to understand their children’s living habits and physical conditions through their daily actions. How many times a day is normal for a baby to defecate? I believe many parents are vague about the answer to this question.

The stools of breastfed babies are golden yellow, occasionally slightly green and relatively thin; or they are ointment-like, uniform, sour and without foam. Normally, the neonatal period has more bowel movements, usually 2-5 times a day, but some babies may have 7-8 bowel movements a day. As the child grows older, the frequency of bowel movements will gradually decrease, and after 2-3 months the frequency of bowel movements will be reduced to 1-2 times a day. Therefore, if a breastfed baby has loose stools or has more frequent stools, parents do not need to worry as long as the baby is energetic, feeding well, and growing in height and weight normally.

If the baby is fed formula, the stool is usually light yellow or khaki, dry, rough, like a hard paste, and often has an unpleasant fecal odor. If there is more sugar in the milk, the stool may become soft and have a slightly rotten odor, and the amount of stool will be larger each time. Sometimes there is grayish white "milk curds" mixed in the stool.

Don't compare your child with other children, because each child has his or her own growth trajectory, and different children have different daily bowel movement times. But be careful. If you normally only have 1 to 2 bowel movements a day, and this suddenly increases to 5 to 6 times a day, you should consider whether you are sick.

Some children grow up drinking breast milk, while others drink formula milk from an early age, so they have different patterns in bowel movements. Parents should not compare their children with other children. Every child is different, and generally there will be no problem as long as there is a regularity. That’s all we have to say about how many times a day it is normal for a baby to defecate.