I remember Jack Newman MD's answer to this. IF the baby is doing well,
gaining well, happy, healthy, and having green poop, ignore the color. I
believe he said "put your sunglasses on."
:) Kathleen
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Subject: green - yellow poop
A colleague of mine is breastfeeding her 4 week old girl. About a week
ago she called me regarding what she described as "green poop". Of
course, the first thing that came to me was imbalance of hindmilk and
foremilk (too much foremilk, right?), but as we tried to correct it (one
breast at a feeding, longer feeds) nothing changed. She is beginning to
pump, too, to save milk for coming back to work, and that milk sure
looks creamy to me. If she pumps for 15 - 20 minutes, the top third of
4 - 6 oz. of milk appears to be thicker and whiter.
The baby's growth is good, urine normal, plenty of wet and soiled
diapers, rare colicky behavior, but the poop remains streaked with a
green color. She also describes it to be interchangabily yellow / green
(sometimes every other diaper is green).
Any ideas?
Libby in El Paso
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