Mucous in poop *apologies photo in post*

Hi, my little one will be 4 months at the end of the month and had exactly the same! I spoke to a Doctor and if it is a single episode, there is no concern about it. However, in case it is always like that, it might be an allergy to milk protein. In our case, my LO (which is only on breast milk) had a lot of episodes with mucous, so I was told to do not eat anything with milk/ butter/ cheese. In our case the appearance improved, so my LO can have allergy to milk protein.

The mucus is likely from swallowing saliva. Wind is unlikely swallowing air as that’s from the lower GI but my boy is suddenly windy too.

Not linked to teething, it’s the salivary glands starting working & stimulated from putting hand/object in mouth. Can’t say if it’ll slow down.. not there yet 😁

You could eliminate dairy if they’re showing other signs of CMPA. You eliminate it for 12 weeks & then reintroduce it & see if there’s a reaction basically. By that point you may have started weaning if they’re meeting the criteria so you’d want to do the milk/dairy ladder

ah interesting. Thanks for sharing your experience. It’s the first instance of it happening - he’s been like this since Tuesday.
So nothing has really changed in my diet since he’s been born. I just have milk in my coffee and porridge - haven’t increased dairy consumption.
Will certainly keep monitoring and look into cutting out dairy if it continues. Thank you

thanks Tanya - always insightful!
So he isn’t showing any other symptoms of CMPA (i had a google of them)… maybe it’s just the extra saliva he is swallowing.

Anyway i will keep an eye on it and consider the dairy elimination if it goes on for longer.

Thank you

just a thought… it’s nothing to do with foremilk hindmilk production right? I know they say if the baby is doing too many short feeds then they could just be getting foremilk which changes the poop?

Absolutely no need to be worried about foremilk or hindmilk unless babe isn’t gaining weight (even then you don’t need to be worried about it but more give them more milk through opportunity. Foremilk & hindmilk is rather outdated now

Olivia Hinge IBCLC has a great video on fore/hind milk and why there’s no reason to worry. Basically the milk gets fattier as the feed progresses but doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with the milk at the start.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02fTx1FYEPniB8JbCaMbEAHHgAwFbYtbsLqfpJN5vJ88gR42ttmGQqwTUF4ob7HA4xl&id=411977425899963
^Lucy Webber

TY! Really good to read this

Hi, I know this is an old thread but it came up when I searched. My LG is also having mucousy poop (EBF) for a few days now. Did yours eventually stop? She’s 5 months and hasn’t had this before x

my boy still have mucusy poo & he’s 6mo, it’s the saliva x

thanks so much! Is it okay if the poo is a bit runnier? I thought it might be the saliva as she’s literally got bubbles in her mouth all the time. X

Ours settled to usual breastfed poops - sweet smelling, mustardy colour etc. (he’s now 23 weeks) but there will still be the odd day where its mucousy. Certainly can link it to the increase in saliva and drooling!