For babies who cannot speak, how should parents judge whether their babies are healthy?
One of the most important clues to answer this question is hidden in the baby’s poop!
However, because the baby’s intestinal function is far from that of adults, the baby’s poop cannot be simply and roughly measured by adult standards.
So what is special about the baby’s poop?
Should the normal baby’s poop be how’s?
1. Characters
For babies six months ago, if they mainly absorb necessary nutrients through milk, the poop often contains a large amount of water, usually the poop is relatively thin and mixed with some milk clots. However, the poop pulled out by babies who eat formula milk is sticky, similar to the stickiness of mustard sauce.
2. Number of times
The baby’s diet determines the amount of poop.
Generally speaking, breast-fed children are thinner and more than those who use formula milk. The defecation of 5 ~ 6 times a day is within the normal range. Of course, due to the large difference in the early intestinal peristalsis ability of babies, some children defecate 7 ~ 8 times a day is also normal.
Sometimes, the baby’s defecation frequency will suddenly decrease, In particular, breast-fed children are more likely to happen, leaving many new fathers and mothers at a loss. In fact, this is also a normal phenomenon, don’t panic too much. At the same time, the baby’s intestinal function is gradually maturing, and it is easier to absorb nutritious breast milk. The intestinal absorption is much more, and the natural discharge is less.
Artificially fed babies usually defecate 1-2 times a day.
3. Colors in a variety of ways
This is another characteristic of baby poop.
Generally speaking, the change of fecal color is mainly related to the residence time of food in intestinal tract and bile.
When milk quickly passes through the baby’s intestinal tract and is discharged, the feces produced are yellow. With the increase of intestinal function, the time for milk to stay in the intestinal tract is slowly prolonged, the fecal color gradually turns green, and turns brown when excretion is slowest.
Baby Poo Color Manual
Black: The first poop pulled by a baby after birth is called meconium, which is usually discharged within 24 hours after birth. As it includes amniotic fluid, mucus, exfoliated cells, etc., it is generally black as tar.
Dark green: When the baby starts breast-feeding, the poop gradually turns dark green and then gradually turns yellow.
Yellow: 5 days after birth, breast-fed babies begin to excrete loose stool, or coarse granular yellow or greenish stool.
Pale yellow or grayish yellow: The poop of the baby fed with formula milk is generally pale yellow and pasty.
Other colors: When solid food is added to the baby’s diet, poop becomes even more strange. Beets can turn poop red, blueberries may make the baby’s poop wear dark blue stripes, and in addition, the colors of various undigested foods can often be found.
Be careful in the following situations. Please see a doctor in time when necessary.
If the baby has bloody feces, vomit, abdominal distension, poor appetite and no weight gain, please see a doctor in time.
In addition to the above situation, when the baby’s poop has the following color changes, parents are also requested to take the baby to see a doctor in time:
White or gray: Usually indicates possible infection or biliary tract diseases.
Black: Black stool is still several days after birth, indicating gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
Blood: Active hemorrhage of digestive tract or hemorrhage from large intestine and rectum.
Green belt mucus: There may be virus infection caused.
When seeing a doctor, remember to describe the following information:
Character (sparse, dry), frequency (several times a day), quantity and color of stool.
The more detailed the information provided, the better it will be for doctors to diagnose.
What do you think of baby constipation and diarrhea?
1. Constipation
Unlike adults, constipation is not called when the poop dries into a small ball or cannot be pulled out. When the baby’s poop is obviously hardened or cobblestone-like, attention should be paid to it.
At this time, the baby has already begun to dehydrate. Other manifestations of dehydration include less tears and saliva, and sunken eyeballs and fontanelle.
The so-called fontanelle gate is also called anterior fontanelle. The skull of the newborn baby has not yet fully merged, so there is an extremely soft and sunken area on the top of the head. Generally, the fontanelle is not completely closed until the baby is about 2 years old and becomes a hard skull like an adult.
In fact, it is because the babies at this time do not know how to defecate by contracting abdominal muscles like adults, nor can they squat in pits like adults, so it looks more difficult. Generally, babies can only learn the correct defecation posture when they are about 1 year old.
2. Diarrhoea
As the baby’s poop is usually relatively thin, it increases the difficulty for parents to judge the baby’s diarrhea. There is no need to worry too much about the occasional amount of poop, or some minor changes that are thin or thick.
However, if the baby’s poop gushes out, it can be judged at a glance that it is not normal defecation. At this moment, the baby is likely to have diarrhea, which requires parents to attach great importance to it and take the baby to see a doctor in time. For those babies born soon, they need to be highly vigilant.