Super Pooper 6 month Baby

[Beagle]

Hello,

I would value any advice re following. In the past fortnight our six month old baby has turned from a one pooh a day(since 3/4 months)to a constant pooper.

The poohs are all still within the description for a breastfed baby although vary from usual yellow seedy poohs to quite green.

We have had a swab taken, which was normal, and dr thought it might be a virus as other babies in her post natal group had similar symptoms. My baby is really happy and sleeping well, but every feed is resulting in a pooh and passing wind also seems to result in poohs, in fact it is reminiscent of the newborn weeks.

She doesn't take formula and we put off weaning until this phase passed in case it was a tummy bug or virus but two weeks later nothing has changed.

I have come to realise that "normal" has a very wide spectrum when it comes to babies, and that this probably is not unusual. As a bug is now ruled out I am thinking I will start weaning and put the changes down to a phase or teething, especially as she is so happy and content. Am I being crazy and should I wait until the poohing eases off, or should I take her back to the doctor? Or do we accept this is the normal for now?

[BB100]

Is your baby shooting poo when you change her nappy as well? My first child became a constant pooper around 2 months and it took us a while to find out why. A ped at A & E suggested my baby was intolerant to the cow's milk I was drinking so I cut out the dairy in my diet and the problem stopped.

I thought maybe it was a co-incidance but my second baby started doing the same thing and responded immediately to cutting out the dairy. Both went onto taking soya formula milk but there is traces of milk protein in that as well so they had to have a special formula from the doctor instead.

It may not be your baby's problem but it's worth a try. Remember to take calcuim supplements for yourself whilst your feeding.

[Fuschia]

Teething certainly affects poo as they swallow acidic saliva