How often does your baby poop?
So during my last health visitor session, the lady told me that some breastfed babies can poop just once a week???
Yet mine poops at least twice a day, and yesterday it was four times! š¤£ weāre talking big ones too, like explosive, up the back kinda poops!! Heās exclusively breastfed and is almost 11 weeks old for reference.
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My youngest was breastfed and only pooped like once a week. My oldest went a few times a day.
It really depends the age of the babies newborns poop so much more. When he was newborn it was like every other diaper that was a poop. But never any āup the backā ones though the cloth diaper elastics stopped it before it ever went up the back or down the legs. All mine did was poop eat and sleep lol. He slept all day and had very small wake windows
My baby is breastfed and before starting on solids she'd poop once maybe twice a week. This wasn't always the case though. When she was as young as your baby she would also poop multiple times a day.
My baby is 3 months and EBF and is on day 5 without pooping
Mine is a little over 2 months old and poos maybe six times a day - is that not normal? It used to be more like 8 (at least based on how often we changed him), which is probably because I was overdoing the breastfeeding. I'm now trying to feed him less, and this is reflected in his output.
It was everyday for the first like 6 weeks and then itās gone down to once everyday/ every 2 days he is also ebf and 11 weeks now :) x
My son was very greedy and he pooped all day long lol. that was 12 years ago now
Totally varies, at that age mine went pretty much every feed!
I was in a mom group and one of the babies didnāt poop for two weeks once. We used to have a poop countdown for him. She did worry about him but he was always fine.
6 weeks, ebf and after every feed, and usually just before too. I think she has shares in big nappy.
My 6m old has always gone about 5 times a day. Heās ebf, starting to Introduce solids so expecting it to slow down a bit!
When my breastfed boy was really little he was a five times a day champion shitter. Now heās a 1-2 times kinda guy. Their habits change as their guts mature, but donāt be surprised if your breastmilk seems to go straight through them. And, yeah, the blowoutsā¦ I donāt miss those. š
Yeah when breastfeeding my baby hardly pooped, she was filling out too and she would be fussy when she could poop. Now that sheās on formula and sheās happy as ever and Iām cleaning poopy diapers more oftenš„“
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