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

Babies within three months of birth have frequent bowel movements, sometimes even more than ten times a day. The old man said that the child did not have "stomach accumulation" and the "stomach accumulation" would be gone when he grows up. In fact, this means that the child's gastrointestinal function has not yet developed fully, and he cannot control his bowel movements independently, so some feces will be squeezed out. What about when the child is five months old? How many times a day is normal for a five-month-old baby to defecate? Let’s take a look at it together below.

Normal stool shape and frequency according to different feeding methods

1. Stool under breastfeeding

In color and shape, it is yellow or golden ointment, uniform and consistent, occasionally slightly green and relatively thin; it has a sour taste but not smelly and no foam, and sometimes contains milk lumps. Defecation 2 to 5 times a day. If your stool is slightly loose and slightly green, it is still normal. Some babies have frequent bowel movements, 4 to 5 times, or even 7 to 8 times a day, but they are in good spirits, can eat, and continue to gain weight, which is also normal. 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.

2. The feces of infants fed with cow's or goat's milk or milk powder are light yellow or earthy gray, relatively dry, rough, uniform, hard paste-like, often mixed with grayish white milk curds and protein clots, and often have an unpleasant fecal odor. The stool is drier and thicker than that of breastfed babies, with a slightly foul odor, and occurs 1 to 2 times a day.

3. Stool under mixed feeding method: When breast milk is insufficient and milk and starchy food are added, the stool will be yellow or light brown, soft, and have a foul odor, and will occur 1 to 3 times a day.

How many times a day is normal for a five-month-old baby to poop? We have learned this through the above content. Of course, there are exceptions sometimes, and it is not always just two or three times. Since babies lack control over their bowel movements and there are great differences between individuals, if the frequency of bowel movements is relatively frequent, it is fine as long as the color of the stool is normal and not watery, and the baby's spirit and diet are normal. Parents and friends don’t have to worry too much.