Newborn's Breastfeeding Chair

The question that worries absolutely all mothers concerns the contents of the diaper. Any unusual shades or deviations from the norm cause fears. To dispel all doubts, it is necessary to become acquainted with possible problems with stools in newborns and the causes of their occurrence.

The nature of the stool in newborns: how should it be normal?

Original feces have a dark olive hue, sometimes almost black. Normally odorless. The first couple of days, while the mother arrives at the milk, the baby may not defecate. While the crumb will feed on colostrum, which is almost completely absorbed by the body, there can be no stool at all.

Then the milk begins to stay and the first few times you will observe the transition chair. This is something between meconium and mature stool. Normally, it is mushy, the color of the stool in newborns during this period is yellow-green.

The frequency of stool with breastfeeding can reach ten times a day. Almost after each feeding. Further, this amount is reduced to 1-3 times per day. In some cases, a child can go only once every few days. This is a sign that the mother's milk is fully absorbed and there is almost no undigested residue left. How many times does the newborn's chair depend on the nutrition of the mother, the features of the baby's body.

Why does the newborn have a green chair?

It is rare that the stool is normalized quickly. Almost always mummies face a lot of problems. The most frequent of them is a green tint. A newborn has a liquid stool or a green stool of different shades for several reasons.

1. First, it can be associated with malnutrition. The cause of malnutrition is a lack of milk from the mother, a tight chest or an entrained nipple.
2. Often, the green appears in cases where the diet of the mother is dominated by vegetables and fruits.
3. One of the reasons why a newborn has a green stool, there may be inflammation in the intestinal mucosa of crumbs. Inflammation begins on a background of hypoxia during childbirth or pregnancy, when a woman constantly uses products with synthetic additives.

In order to normalize the chair as soon as possible in a newborn, one should consult a pediatrician and consult a diet plan. As a rule, the transition to breastfeeding on demand and the introduction of drugs for lactation solve the problem quite quickly.

Newborn's chair with white lumps

It happens that the stool of a newborn on breastfeeding has white impregnations. If the child is feeling well and gaining weight, this may be a signal of overeating. To panic it is not necessary, as in the form of such lumps in a chair of the newborn on thoracal feeding the organism independently removes superfluous.

If you notice a completely opposite phenomenon (the child is restless and poorly gaining weight), there is a possibility of enzymatic deficiency in the digestive glands. In such cases, specialists will assign special enzyme preparations to crumbs.

The newborn has a stool with mucus

Foam, a characteristic sharp odor, a very fluid consistency and a yellowish stool color in newborns - all these are signs of a violation digestion of lactose. Perhaps there is too much of it in the mother's milk.

Sometimes a yellow liquid stool with a foamy consistency in a newborn is a sign of a lack of lactase. As a result, undigested carbohydrates begin to tighten the moisture in the intestines and the stool turns very liquid. Such lactase deficiency is often a transitional process and can be neglected with normal health of the crumbs.

If a newborn with a stool with foam is accompanied by colic, delayed weight gain or persistent diaper rash, you should consult a doctor. The first thing to do is to adjust the diet of the mother, hand over the feces for analysis.