Newborn has diarrhea

[Anonymous]

FTM and a little on the anxious side.

Baby is 5 days old and seems to have diarrhea. Acting totally fine and eating great. Her poops were fine when she was born and looked normal but now she’s pooping at every feed and it’s super watery and yellow. She seems uncomfortable and squirmy when she poops too. I’ve cut out dairy, gluten, sugar, and grassier veggies and greens. Can’t fathom what she’s be so sensitive too. Maybe protein. Essentially eating rice, potatoes and unseasoned chicken at this point. May set up a pediatrician appointment, but don’t know if I’m being silly.

[Anonymous]

1. Set up a pediatrician appointment so they can reweigh the infant and do an exam. Bring a diaper that concerns you in with you to the appointment. [/pediatrician]

2. Has she transitioned from sticky black/tarry meconium stool to a yellow, cottage-cheese-like curd stool in a loose, watery surrounding fluid?

[Anonymous]

Call the nurse if you're worried, but I wouldn't be. That sounds a lot like normal newborn poops to me. And it's unlikely that it's a food sensitivity -- those usually don't show up until a couple weeks at the earliest. Newborns often squirm and look uncomfortable when they poop at this age - it's new and weird! If she's gaining and the nurse isn't worried, I wouldn't be either.

[Anonymous]

Are you sure it's not just normal newborn poop? It's supposed to be pretty unformed/liquidy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you sure it's not just normal newborn poop? It's supposed to be pretty unformed/liquidy.

+1. Google what newborn poop looks like. It's basically yellow water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you sure it's not just normal newborn poop? It's supposed to be pretty unformed/liquidy.

I don’t know. I changed my friends babies diaper before and his poop just looked like regular poop. Brown m, like clay. But he was older I guess (8 months).

My babies poop looks like Dijon mustard. I thought any stools they weren’t solid qualified as diarrhea.

[Anonymous]

This sounds very normal. I would stop restricting your diet and not take any steps like that again unless your doctor tells you you need to. Send a photo of the poop to your pediatrician but it sounds completely normal. They don’t get actual turds until they start eating solids.

Seriously though, it’s good that you recognize you have some anxiety here and as a result, don’t do anything like a crazy diet until you check with an expert. They’re supposed to be squirmy and uncomfortable when they’re pooping. That’s just being a baby. Pooping is hard - they have to learn to coordinate the muscles to push and relax at the same time.

Do you have a good baby book like the one from the pediatrician’s association? A lot of this kind of thing is in there.

Seriously though, restricting your diet like that is a big step. Don’t just do that sort of thing on a whim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you sure it's not just normal newborn poop? It's supposed to be pretty unformed/liquidy.

I don’t know. I changed my friends babies diaper before and his poop just looked like regular poop. Brown m, like clay. But he was older I guess (8 months).

My babies poop looks like Dijon mustard. I thought any stools they weren’t solid qualified as diarrhea.

Your friend’s baby was eating solids. Why did you think “any stools that weren’t solid qualified as diarrhea?” That’s not true at all, so wherever you heard that - stop looking at that source.

Please eat a varied diet.

[Anonymous]

The consistency sounds like normal newborn poop for breastfed babies, but the frequency seems high. My breastfed baby pooped once every 2-3 days.

[Anonymous]

It should look like this.


The frequency is not too high, Pp is just forgetting they go through a frequent poop stage early on and then it slows way down. Normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This sounds very normal. I would stop restricting your diet and not take any steps like that again unless your doctor tells you you need to. Send a photo of the poop to your pediatrician but it sounds completely normal. They don’t get actual turds until they start eating solids.

Seriously though, it’s good that you recognize you have some anxiety here and as a result, don’t do anything like a crazy diet until you check with an expert. They’re supposed to be squirmy and uncomfortable when they’re pooping. That’s just being a baby. Pooping is hard - they have to learn to coordinate the muscles to push and relax at the same time.

Do you have a good baby book like the one from the pediatrician’s association? A lot of this kind of thing is in there.

Seriously though, restricting your diet like that is a big step. Don’t just do that sort of thing on a whim.

Googled and sent to a friend who said it looked exactly as it should.

I feel like an idiot. I am not a kid/baby person so I’m afraid if I ask too many questions or don’t seem like that I know what I’m doing or taking the initiative people will think I don’t know what I’m doing. But I guess I really don’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This sounds very normal. I would stop restricting your diet and not take any steps like that again unless your doctor tells you you need to. Send a photo of the poop to your pediatrician but it sounds completely normal. They don’t get actual turds until they start eating solids.

Seriously though, it’s good that you recognize you have some anxiety here and as a result, don’t do anything like a crazy diet until you check with an expert. They’re supposed to be squirmy and uncomfortable when they’re pooping. That’s just being a baby. Pooping is hard - they have to learn to coordinate the muscles to push and relax at the same time.

Do you have a good baby book like the one from the pediatrician’s association? A lot of this kind of thing is in there.

Seriously though, restricting your diet like that is a big step. Don’t just do that sort of thing on a whim.

Googled and sent to a friend who said it looked exactly as it should.

I feel like an idiot. I am not a kid/baby person so I’m afraid if I ask too many questions or don’t seem like that I know what I’m doing or taking the initiative people will think I don’t know what I’m doing. But I guess I really don’t.

Don’t beat yourself up, OP. You are a new mom, and it is a very steep learning curve. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The consistency sounds like normal newborn poop for breastfed babies, but the frequency seems high. My breastfed baby pooped once every 2-3 days.

It’s very kid dependent — I don’t think my kid went a day without pooping several times until she was several months old and at nearly two it’s still not uncommon for her to have multiple poops a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This sounds very normal. I would stop restricting your diet and not take any steps like that again unless your doctor tells you you need to. Send a photo of the poop to your pediatrician but it sounds completely normal. They don’t get actual turds until they start eating solids.

Seriously though, it’s good that you recognize you have some anxiety here and as a result, don’t do anything like a crazy diet until you check with an expert. They’re supposed to be squirmy and uncomfortable when they’re pooping. That’s just being a baby. Pooping is hard - they have to learn to coordinate the muscles to push and relax at the same time.

Do you have a good baby book like the one from the pediatrician’s association? A lot of this kind of thing is in there.

Seriously though, restricting your diet like that is a big step. Don’t just do that sort of thing on a whim.

Googled and sent to a friend who said it looked exactly as it should.

I feel like an idiot. I am not a kid/baby person so I’m afraid if I ask too many questions or don’t seem like that I know what I’m doing or taking the initiative people will think I don’t know what I’m doing. But I guess I really don’t.

Don’t beat yourself up, OP. You are a new mom, and it is a very steep learning curve. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.

+1 you’re doing fine! And don’t be afraid to ask questions. I had a giant list every time I showed up and the ped and they were really nice about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This sounds very normal. I would stop restricting your diet and not take any steps like that again unless your doctor tells you you need to. Send a photo of the poop to your pediatrician but it sounds completely normal. They don’t get actual turds until they start eating solids.

Seriously though, it’s good that you recognize you have some anxiety here and as a result, don’t do anything like a crazy diet until you check with an expert. They’re supposed to be squirmy and uncomfortable when they’re pooping. That’s just being a baby. Pooping is hard - they have to learn to coordinate the muscles to push and relax at the same time.

Do you have a good baby book like the one from the pediatrician’s association? A lot of this kind of thing is in there.

Seriously though, restricting your diet like that is a big step. Don’t just do that sort of thing on a whim.

Googled and sent to a friend who said it looked exactly as it should.

I feel like an idiot. I am not a kid/baby person so I’m afraid if I ask too many questions or don’t seem like that I know what I’m doing or taking the initiative people will think I don’t know what I’m doing. But I guess I really don’t.

OP I hadn't spent much time around babies before I had mine, so I relate. The learning curve can be steep!

Come here and ask questions any time. There are some people on here who can be judgy and unkind, but so many people on here genuinely want to help!

Also, joining a mom group with similar aged babies (I did PACE) was basically a life saver for me because it gave me a space to talk about all this stuff on a weekly basis.

Congrats on the baby!