How to judge the frequency of bowel movements of a full-month baby

Many parents may not understand the frequency of bowel movements of their one-month-old babies. In fact, every child has an irregular bowel movement. If they still eat too much, they will have too many bowel movements. Since the child's bowel movements are different each time, the pattern can actually reflect what disease the child has.

For breastfed babies, the stool is yellow or golden yellow, with a uniform consistency like a paste or mushy paste, occasionally thin and slightly green, with a sour but not smelly taste, and they have two to four bowel movements a day.

For bottle-fed babies, their stools are light yellow or earthy gray, dry and hard, strip-shaped, often contain milk curds, and have a distinct odor. They defecate 1 to 2 times a day.

If you normally only have 1 to 2 bowel movements a day, but this suddenly increases to 5 to 6 times a day, you should consider whether you are ill. If the child has frequent bowel movements but is in generally good condition and has not lost weight, this does not indicate a disease.

Possible reasons why your baby's stool is green

Generally, the stool of breastfed babies is acidic, slightly green in color, and sometimes mixed with some white particles.

If a formula-fed baby has green loose stools, it means that the intestinal motility is accelerated or there is inflammation in the intestine, which is a symbol of diarrhea. Some parents think that their children’s green stools are caused by some kind of shock, which is wrong.

In addition, for the health of the baby, it is necessary to take in enough iron. If the baby who eats milk powder containing iron cannot fully absorb the iron in the milk powder, the stool will be yellow-green, the white particles in the stool will be larger, and it will be more likely to have a foul odor.

We have learned about the frequency of bowel movements of full-month babies introduced above. First of all, we can control the amount of milk the child drinks and regulate the amount of milk the child drinks according to the time of the day. In this way, we can identify when the child will defecate and reduce a lot of trouble.