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What Your Baby’s Poop Colour Says About Her Diet

January 13, 2017

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Your baby has poop: What to do? As a new parent, you’ll soon be exceedingly familiar with the contents of your baby’s diaper, which will come in all colours, consistencies and yes, smells.

If Baby’s poop colour has changed recently, it’s probably due to adjustments in her diet, such as switching from breast milk to formula, or solids. Here are the common colours for baby stools, and what they mean.

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Text and Photos: Young Parents Team

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What Your Baby's Poop Colour Says About Her Diet
1. Greenish black
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It’s her first poop, or meconium. The colostrum in your breast milk will act as a laxative and help her pass the sticky, tarry stools.
2. Greenish brown
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This is a good sign that she has started digesting early breast milk or formula.

3. Yellow
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If Baby is exclusively breastfed, she’ll have yellow or mustard-coloured stools that look grainy from about five days after birth.

4. Light brown
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Formula-fed babies usually have pasty, peanut butter-like poop, which is more pungent than that from babies on breast milk.
5. Dark brown
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Once your little one is introduced to solid foods, her poop tends to be dark brown – and much smellier.

6. Other colours
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Occasionally, the poop will be tinged with hues from the pigments in food. So, if your baby’s been eating carrots, her stools are likely to be yellowish orange.

Text and Photos: Young Parents Team
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