One month baby stool frequency and color

The baby's stool can reflect the baby's physical health. Generally speaking, a one-month-old baby has many bowel movements, because the stomach and intestines have not yet begun to adapt to the environment, so the stool is relatively loose. Let's take a look at the normal frequency and color of a one-month-old baby's stool.

1. Newborn meconium (dark green)

I guess the first time a child came into the world, he or she probably scared the parents a lot. It was a lot of dark green poop, and the fathers were so scared that they ran to call a doctor.

Even if a newborn baby has not eaten anything, he or she will pass dark green meconium 6 to 12 hours after birth.

I don’t know if it’s because the babies cherish their mothers, or they don’t want to dirty the amniotic fluid they swallow every day, but the babies must come out of their mother’s belly before they are willing to poop for the first time in their lives. Meconium that has accumulated for 9 months must be cleared out through frequent bowel movements, which usually takes 2 to 3 days, 3 to 5 times a day, for the dark green color to disappear.

Meconium is usually odorless, viscous, and nearly dark green in color. It is mainly composed of amniotic fluid swallowed by the baby in the womb, epithelial cells shed by the fetus, vellus hair, sebum, bile, intestinal secretions, etc. These innate things are difficult to wash off. Experienced elders will tell the child's parents that they must wear diapers instead of diapers in the first few days.

2. Transitional stool (yellow-green)

During the days when meconium is excreted, breastfeeding also begins. When the meconium is completely excreted and the stool transitions to normal stool, it will be yellow-green in color. Most newborns' stools will show this stage after 2 to 3 days of breastfeeding, and then gradually enter the normal yellow stage (breastfed babies).

Experts remind you that this is not a bad "stool": the time when newborns start feeding and the amount of milk they consume will directly affect the appearance and duration of transitional stools. If the start of breastfeeding is delayed or the amount of milk consumed is too little, the transition period will also be delayed.

3. Stool during lactation

a. Breastfed babies (soft golden stools)

Since breast milk is rich in oligosaccharides, it can fully stimulate gastrointestinal motility. Therefore, most babies will not have hard stools and no obvious odor. The stools are golden yellow, occasionally slightly green and relatively thin; or they are ointment-like, uniform, sour and without foam. The frequency of bowel movements of breastfed babies is very flexible. Usually, the frequency is higher in the neonatal period, 2 to 5 times a day. As the child grows older, the frequency of bowel movements will gradually decrease. For children aged 2 to 3 months, the frequency of bowel movements will be reduced to 1 to 2 times a day. Therefore, if a breastfed baby has loose stools or has more frequent bowel movements, it is normal as long as the baby is in good spirits and feeding, has normal weight gain, and does not have difficulty defecating, abdominal pain, or bloating, and parents do not need to worry.

The above is the number of times the baby defecates in one month. In fact, we can judge whether the baby is sick by the color of the baby's feces. During breastfeeding, the baby's feces are relatively watery. In order to ensure the baby's physical health, we can only judge whether the baby has any abnormalities through observation by the parents, so parents must pay enough attention.