NAPS

I bet you never imagined how often you would be looking at p**p, thinking about p**p, or talking about p**p… until now, with your newborn 😅

Your Ask a Nurse question:
“My exclusively breastfed 8 week old has really watery p**p… is that normal?”

The answer is usually yes 🤍

Breastfed baby p**p is often
💛 Yellow or mustard colored
💩 Loose, watery, or seedy
✨ Sometimes explosive
😅 Sometimes after every feed

We often see looser and more frequent p**ps early on because breastmilk is incredibly easy to digest and, in fact, acts as a natural laxative.

Add in a little formula and p**ps may shift in color or consistency too. Regardless of how your baby is fed, yellows, greens, and browns are all generally part of the normal p**p rainbow 🌈

So what isn’t normal?

🚩 Blood in the stool
🚩 White, pale, chalky, or clay-colored p**p
🚩 Newborn p**p that goes back to black after those early meconium stools
🚩 Copious mucus PLUS fussiness, poor feeding, or poor weight gain
🚩 Signs of dehydration like fewer wet diapers

And while we’re here… frequency can vary wildly too 😅

Some breastfed newborns p**p after every feed 💥
Others may go several days without p**ping once they’re a little older.

It’s wild because some babies p**p 4–5 times a day while others p**p every 4–5 days… and both can be normal.

This is why we always say when it comes to newborn p**p, we look at the whole baby 👶

Ask yourself… is your baby:
✨ Eating well
✨ Peeing regularly
✨ Gaining weight
✨ Overall content after feeds

When it comes to newborn p**p, normal is a pretty wide range 😅

And if you’re ever unsure, you can always ask us on our Ask a Nurse board or message your pediatrician 🤍

Sleep > pumping …. If you’re baby is sleeping (IMO).