Dear Mari, Of course every once in a while there is a baby who doesn't know
the "rules" and does his/her own thing.  But I find these early infrequent
"poopers" are thriving, bursting at the seams with their growing.  I don't
have any concern about the pattern they have chosen.  When a mom reports
infrequent poops early on I want to see that baby, do more frequent weight
checks and if everything is obvivously going well, enjoy the fact that baby
doesn't have as many poopy diapers as the "average" newborn.

My personal rule of thumb, observe for passage of first mec stool, timing
amount, quality etc, then several transitional stools each day, usually
after a feeding.  More poop than pee on days 0-3, gradually changing to
more pee than poop after day 4, traditional 6-8 wet diapers/day by day 7-8
and a couple of yellow poops/day.  Over the years I've also observed that
not every BF baby's stool are seedy.  Some are pasty, but still bright
yellow.  With any baby early on, if varying from traditional pattern, close
monitoring of the breastfeeding - transfer of colostrum and milk.  Is it
happening?   Sincerely, Pat in SNJ
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