My baby has green poo ... why?

Question

He is 6 weeks old and is being fed on Farley's. He is a well baby but does have colic at the moment.

He has one 'dirty' nappy a day, all the rest are just wet.

Is this normal?

Answer 1

Good question. I copied this information from:

http://www.babycentre.co.uk/baby/dailycare/yourbabyspoo/

If you wish to read more about poo and other baby functions. lol

Your baby's stools may regularly change in consistency and colour, too, going from soft and mustard-yellow in colour to yellow with green specks, and then back again the next day. This is completely normal.

Hopefully this helps!
But if you are concerned, you can ask your baby's doctor.
--Vae

Answer 2

Formula fed babies do tend to have greenish poo, it's just the stuff in the formulation, and nothing to worry about. IF he has a tummy ache / colic this is also likely to make it greener, but yes, it's perfectly normal
Also one dirty nappy a day is fine.

Answer 3

If Farley's is a formula than yes this should be very normal. I formula feed my son and he had dark green poo (it kinda looked like the spinach you can buy in the jar) and my little girl is breast feed and hers is yellow, so I think it is just the difference of food. If you are truly concerned (which I won't be) talk to his Dr.

Answer 4

Sounds perfectly normal. Babies fed on formula usualy do have green poo. Give him a spoonful of gripe water (buy from chemist) for his colic. Chill out and enjoy him.

Answer 5

"green Stool Like an orange stool, a green stool can oftentimes be attributed to something you have ingested. the main obvious is green ingredients which you have eaten, which incorporate green leafy vegetables, or ingredients with an stunning style of darkish crimson or green nutrition coloring like Kool-help or gelatin. it could additionally be led to by potential of supplementations that incorporate chlorophyll. those would possibly not look green, however the chlorophyll in them will turn stool a green coloration. nutrition and medicine at the instant are not the only motives for green stool; returned a speedy transit time might reason a stool to tutor green. in the journey that your stool is passing too at present via your intestines, it would not enable bile to break it down. until now being broken down by potential of bile, stool is green. it fairly is the bile that surely turns stools brown in coloration."

Answer 6

My health visitor at the time when my 6 year old was a baby told me, that green poo in bottlefed babies where a sighn of being underfed or overfed.

In my daughters case it was underfed as she just wouldnt take milk very well.

Answer 7

yes this is very normal for a baby of this age in a few weeks time it will lighten up to a yellowish pooh sorry about the detail... but wait till he starts on the solids will be all differant coulours then lol

Answer 8

Yes it is normal. You will see many colors of the rainbow in your newborns poo.....Yellow is common. The green poo is from iron tablets/prenatal tabs you took during your pregnancy.

Answer 9

SOMETIMES GREEN POO CAN BE A SIGN THE BABY IS NOT GETTING ENOUGH MILK..ESPECIALLY IF BREAST FEED, BUT BECAUSE YOU ARE BOTTLE FEEDING MAYBE IT IS THE FARLEY'S. TALK TO UR HEALTH VISITOR ABOUT CHANGING BABY'S MILK, YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSE TO CHANGE IT SUDDENLY HAS TO BE WEANED ON TO ANOTHER BRAND.

Answer 10

Very normal at that age.
Dont worry about it.
Thier little bodys are still getting rid of all the pre birth junk