A doula client/friend's 6 day old baby was hospitalized for a bilirubin
level of 20.8, put under the lights for 12 hours and then discharged.  He
was fully breastfed and made lots of green poops after the treatment --no
formula was given and poops had been yellow before the treatment.  My friend
was told that her baby had "skipped over" the green poop stage of day 3 and
hadn't eliminated the bilirubin when he should have.  The baby did have a
dry day and a half from day 2 -3 before I went for a visit and helped with
the latch, then had one meconium poop that night.  By the next morning, milk
was in and baby was having yellow poops.

Did I miss something in my basic breastfeeding education? -- I didn't think
GREEN poops on day three were "necessary" to eliminating the bilirubin.  I
recognize that the not-so-great nursing on days 1 and 2 was probably a risk
factor for developing jaundice, but never thought that if the poops weren't
green before they turned yellow, that meant the baby did not eliminate the
bilirubin.  Please elucidate for me, wise ones.

WarmLLLy,
Julie, LLLL in NJ

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