You might also notice bits of undigested food in your baby’s diaper after starting solid foods. This might not be as obvious if your baby was exclusively formula fed before, but generally we want the texture of their poop to be like the texture of a cooked sweet potato – sort of pasty. Once your baby is eating solid food, you’ll see a pretty significant change in stool texture – namely, they’ll get way firmer. Texture: If your baby was exclusively breastfed, you’re probably familiar with the more loose stools they were used to having (note: not diarrhea, but loose for sure).Here are the main things to look for when poop is normal… However, I want to note that this doesn’t mean that your baby’s poop will begin to look like adult poop – their poop will continue to have certain characteristics that make it very clearly baby poop. Once you begin feeding your baby solid food, typically around the 6 month mark and once they’ve shown all the signs of readiness, your baby’s poop will change due to their new diet. I’ll explain more about the other signs in a little bit, but this would warrant a call to their doctor. Anything less than that could be a sign that they’re constipated. However, they should be going at least once per day, maybe even every other day. Frequency: Formula fed babies don’t typically poop after all their milk feeds (as is common for some breastfed babies) because formula takes longer to process through the digestive tract.Texture: Thick and firm – typically it has a consistency similar to toothpaste, which is thicker than the poop of a breastfed baby.With formula there’s a bit more of a range as far as the color of poops, but any of these colors are considered normal. Color: Yellow-brown, green-tan, or brown. It’s important to note that it may take 1-2 weeks after introducing formula exclusively for your baby’s diapers to change. So, if you’re exclusively formula feeding, your baby’s poops will take on the following characteristics listed below. This is because formula is digested differently than breast milk is, and it has different properties. If you’re feeding your baby formula, their poops are going to look different than that of a baby exclusively drinking breast milk.
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