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

As parents of newborns, during the confinement period, the baby's stool is generally very watery, just like diarrhea. Therefore, many parents think that diarrhea is a disease and take their children to the hospital for treatment. In fact, newborns have diarrhea before three months because they are also adapting to the outside environment and have not yet gathered their stomachs. This is a normal phenomenon. So how many times a day is normal for a baby to poop at two months old?

There is no uniform pattern for the nature and frequency of newborn bowel movements, but each baby has his or her own "pattern". For new mothers, how can they grasp the rules of their children? What situations are worth paying attention to?

Normal stool shape and frequency

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.

Generally speaking, as long as the baby does not cry or make a fuss and is in good spirits, mothers do not need to worry about the baby's normal diarrhea. As long as they know how many times the baby has bowel movements a day in two months and observe for a long time, then if the baby has any abnormalities, mothers will be able to discover them in time. Usually, the number of bowel movements is not fixed when the baby is just born. As long as the baby has no other abnormalities, it is a normal physiological state and mothers do not need to worry.