You can add me to the list of believers that infants (and probably all ages) 
should optimally be having at least one stool per day.

I know many breastfed babies do not stool daily after 4 weeks of age, but I 
do believe that is probably a sign of some sort of problem...whether it is 
low thyroid or a food sensitivity.  But I have the conversation with mothers 
all the time about whether it is "worth it" for them to drastically change 
their diest for a daily stool if that is their baby's only symptom.  Right 
now I do not have the data to suggest it is.  But I have seen so many fussy 
and or gassy and or spitting up babies who are having infrequent stools, and 
once the offending food is removed from moms diet they start pooping at 
least daily again.

Kathy Leeper, MD, IBCLC
MilkWorks- Lincoln, NE

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