Does baby poop change at 4 months? (breastfed)

My baby is 4 months next week and has, up until this past week, always had dark mustard/ochre coloured poops with a thin, runny consistency.

This week, she’s been a lighter yellow colour, lumpy with undigested milk fats. I thought it’d be a phase, but it’s been going on a few days now.

Baby is fine in herself, just wondering if this is something to do with the digestive system maturing at this time?

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My baby is similar! Noticed green poop for the first time ever. HV said it was normal 🙏

My baby is 4 months old in 3 days time and I noticed this this morning too x

Ours has gone greeny this past week, wonder why x

Yes my EBF little girls gone from mustard yellow to green recently

Yep! My girl is 19 weeks old and same change noticed 😊

I also had a day of green! Although it coincided with some vomit so I thought she was unwell, but GP said it was fine 🤷🏻‍♀️

Had exactly this. I even took him to the Doctors thinking he had diarrhoea. HV yesterday said it could be cos he is so drooly and swallowing it too so it changes their poo and also makes it have mucus. The undigested milk is cos it’s going through them faster

Have recently had vaccinations? This can make some temporary changes to poo x

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