Green baby poop picture included

My LO is almost 6 weeks old being breastfed and bottle fed expressed milk. Usually breastfed during the day and bottles at night. He has had reflux issues pretty much since he was born with lots of spit up but never has issues eating. He also has a lot of gas that makes him very uncomfortable, mostly at night, and lots of poops in a day (would say almost every diaper change there is one). His poops are usually yellowish and seedy but sometimes have some green in them, today his poop is the most green I’ve seen it, any help on why this is?
He takes almost 5oz from a bottle (pace fed) and is not a quick breast feeder, sometimes I have to unlatch him as he falls asleep suckling.

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I would check with your dr, but I think it could be that his body isn’t agreeing with something you’re eating. This happened to my cousin and she had to cut any heavy dairy like cream, ice cream etc out of her diet.

A few tips:

Get him completely naked when breast-feeding, and do not be shy to tickle his feet or poke him a little to keep him awake !

I don’t want to speak for everyone, but I think the bottled stuff probably is giving him stomach issues. I only used bottle for a few days when I had a serious sore on my breast at the beginning, but my little one also had stomach upset from it. Consider pumping your own milk and bottle feeding him that !

yes I have tried him skin to skin but he gets extra cozy then 😂 I try to play with his hands and feet and that’s pretty much all that works but have to do it continually to keep him awake!

The bottles are all breastmilk!

Ohhh ok. Well his poo looks normal to me! Green happens sometimes, I think based on what you eat. I wouldn’t worry. Maybe touch his jaw line with a lil piece of ice…just to keep him alert lol.

I was getting consistently green poops just like that and started doing massage and stroking my breast immediately before my LO eats, it's supposedly stimulating the fatty milk to be available. It has really helped!

https://images.app.goo.gl/h6tZZ59D71aEAFKr6

He's probably not getting enough hind milk. Try to get a breast completely empty before switching to the next one and try starting on the breast you ended on at the next feeding. It's also supposedly much harder to get hindmilk when pumping.

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