newborn poos - normal?
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Topic: newborn poos - normal?
Posted By: Bexee
Subject: newborn poos - normal?
Date Posted: 19 August 2009 at 2:48pm
| Okay, this may be a dumb question but how do I tell the difference between the "explosion poos" that I've been told to expect and diaorhea? I'm trying to work out whether to be worried or not! |
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Posted By: hannibal
Date Posted: 19 August 2009 at 6:44pm
| Hi, diaorreha poos have quite a acidity smell. Hope that helps. |
Posted By: Chickoin
Date Posted: 19 August 2009 at 6:47pm
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Yeah, that was what I was told too, normal breastfed babies' poo is runny, usually yellow with very little lumps and smells sweet. If it's diaorreha it smells bad.
Seems to be the smell rather that the look of it... -------------   
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 19 August 2009 at 9:09pm
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Even explosive newborn poo is still quite thick but it just goes everywhere, whereas diaorrhea would be more watery (I think also it can be mucousy looking) ------------- 
 
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Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 19 August 2009 at 9:49pm
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Definitely smells acidic, like cuppatea said can be quite mucousy, and also will be more regular than normal poos.
They count diarrhoea as I think more than 1 loose BM per hour? |
Posted By: Jelly
Date Posted: 22 August 2009 at 2:44pm
Newborn poo smells... sweet? Like nice sweet? That can't be right, it's still poo  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: palomino
Date Posted: 22 August 2009 at 3:40pm
| Its a very nice smell for poo :P Its just milk |
Posted By: lilfatty
Date Posted: 22 August 2009 at 3:53pm
Its when they eat solids their poo gets smelly  ------------- Mummy to Issy (3) and Elias (18 months) I did it .. 41 kgs gone! From flab to fab in under a year  http://www.femininefitness.co.nz/category/blog - LFs weight blog
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Jelly wrote:Posted By: Ella1
Date Posted: 22 August 2009 at 4:43pm
| I was confused about this too. As Mika used to poo heaps (about 5 times a day) up till 5 months, and it was often VERY liquid. For a while she had pretty green poos too. But I was told you can't miss diarrhoea because of the smell, and hers were never stinky, so I assume she's just one of those childen with very regular BMs. |
Posted By: Jelly
Date Posted: 22 August 2009 at 5:50pm
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Oh thank goodness. I'll have time to get used to wiping a tiny bum before I have to deal with the gag inducing smell too.
That is definitely a relief  ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 22 August 2009 at 6:38pm
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Sweet like cooking caramel....I'd often think I'd left the oven on
Ella it might have been that she was reacting to something in your milk. We had pooh like that every nappy. Solids has definitely helped sort that along with no dairy in our diets. But  on the solids poohs------------- Kel http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: palomino
Date Posted: 22 August 2009 at 10:08pm
| My first 'solids poo' was almost enough to make me want to never give solids again hahah i miss the newborn poos! |