OK, I need a stool physiology consult.

I'm helping a mother with an oversupply.  She's a physician, very committed
to bf but daunted by her baby who is thriving but nonetheless so far quite
unhappy.   I think normal oversupply measures will help a lot -- in fact just
over the two hours I was there, during which to the mom's incredulity I kept
suggesting she return to the same breast over and over, the little one got
less and less unhappy, and finally nursed reasonably contentedly to sleep.
I'll see them again Saturday and am optimistic.

However, she asked me a question I couldn't answer.   I know that babies who
are lactose-overloaded from oversupply tend to have poops that are waterier
or mucusy rather than seedy.  But why?   What's the connection with lactose,
or gut transit time, or whatever, and seediness?   What IS that seediness,
anyway?

Thanks to anyone who can explain in a way I can pass along.

Elisheva Urbas, NYC
when I was a child my brother Daniel used to say he would be a doodyologist
when he grew up but it seems that I am doing it instead...

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