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

After a newborn baby is born, the doctor will feed the baby, and then the digestive system in the baby's body will start to work. After the milk powder is digested, it will begin to be excreted from the body through defecation. However, because the newborn baby has just been born and has different nurturing in later development, the bowel movements vary at different times and every day.

1. Newborn baby

After the baby is born, he or she has not yet consumed too much food. Generally speaking, when the baby is in the mother's body, he will ingest some amniotic fluid, shed epithelial cells, some fetal hair, etc. Therefore, babies at this stage generally pass meconium. The color of meconium is usually dark green or black green. The child has not eaten any salty food yet, so the feces he excretes do not have a bad smell.

Children at this age will normally have bowel movements three to five times. If the newborn has not had a bowel movement one day after birth. New parents should immediately find out if their baby has fecal infarction, which requires prompt medical treatment.

2. One-week-old baby

After the baby's meconium is excreted, it will gradually transition to normal baby feces. Babies under four months old are generally fed mainly with breast milk. Therefore, the fetus's stool will be mushy and watery. Sometimes it will appear in a paste form, which is generally golden in color and has a sour taste, but still no odor. Children at this age may have two to four bowel movements a day.

Therefore, newborn babies will have more frequent bowel movements. After one week of birth, the baby's bowel movement frequency will become more stable. This is also because after the baby consumes breast milk, breast milk is digested faster, and the diet is mainly breast milk and relatively simple, so the baby's bowel movements will be more stable.

Therefore, it is normal for newborn babies to have frequent bowel movements. It does not mean that the child has gastrointestinal problems or frequent diarrhea at birth. It takes some time for the child to excrete the meconium in his body at the beginning. If there is no bowel movement, it is actually a pathological problem of the child and requires timely medical attention.