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My 3rd baby is now 9 days old, and I thought I understood babies now!
She is ebf and from my experience and everything I am feeling she is feeding well.
She cleared all of her meconium by day 3 but since then she hasn't had many dirty nappies at all.
She had maybe 1 a day, but not a huge amount and it changed from black/green to dark brown orange. She was weighed on day 5 and she had lost 8% of her birthweight which I was fine with - my other girls lost 9.5% and 8.5%.
My milk definitely came in fine - I've bf a lot in the past 4.5 years and my supply has always been quite regulated but I get there in the end. My other girls certainly had no issues pooping!
Anyway - the mws came out and weighed her again on day 8 and she is gaining and was at that point 4% off her birthweight. Her slight jaundice is gone, she is weeing the right amount, she isn't uncomfortable and she is passing plenty of wind (which is now quite smelly)
Her poop though yesterday that the MW saw was basically brown, the night before she passed a poo that was almost soft clay like in consistency and definitely brown. It is like she is constipated???
Since then she has done a few more small poops that are a slightly more normal colour and not as firm.
The mws want to weigh her again on Sunday morning and are keeping in touch with me and don't think we need a GP referral yet.
I really don't know what to make of what is going on though. The only difference with this baby compared to my others is that she was born after a very quick labour and she was full of mucous for the first 3/4 days. In those days she did some enormous vomits, with a lot of fluid, colostrum and then milk all mixed in. I think in that time she did an orange wee nappy - could she have dehydrated herself and this has caused constipation?
I'm not incredibly worried but obviously this can't go on too much longer with the minimal and strange coloured poop?
Any insight or experience???
She is ebf and from my experience and everything I am feeling she is feeding well.
She cleared all of her meconium by day 3 but since then she hasn't had many dirty nappies at all.
She had maybe 1 a day, but not a huge amount and it changed from black/green to dark brown orange. She was weighed on day 5 and she had lost 8% of her birthweight which I was fine with - my other girls lost 9.5% and 8.5%.
My milk definitely came in fine - I've bf a lot in the past 4.5 years and my supply has always been quite regulated but I get there in the end. My other girls certainly had no issues pooping!
Anyway - the mws came out and weighed her again on day 8 and she is gaining and was at that point 4% off her birthweight. Her slight jaundice is gone, she is weeing the right amount, she isn't uncomfortable and she is passing plenty of wind (which is now quite smelly)
Her poop though yesterday that the MW saw was basically brown, the night before she passed a poo that was almost soft clay like in consistency and definitely brown. It is like she is constipated???
Since then she has done a few more small poops that are a slightly more normal colour and not as firm.
The mws want to weigh her again on Sunday morning and are keeping in touch with me and don't think we need a GP referral yet.
I really don't know what to make of what is going on though. The only difference with this baby compared to my others is that she was born after a very quick labour and she was full of mucous for the first 3/4 days. In those days she did some enormous vomits, with a lot of fluid, colostrum and then milk all mixed in. I think in that time she did an orange wee nappy - could she have dehydrated herself and this has caused constipation?
I'm not incredibly worried but obviously this can't go on too much longer with the minimal and strange coloured poop?
Any insight or experience???
if she is gaining weight, peeing right and not in pain I wouldn't be panicked. I would just be keeping an eye on things as you are. It is also reassuring that she is pooping (just not loads!). We were told that breastfed babies only 'poop out the excess', so they can not poop a lot early on and be fine). It is more the consistency that I would keep a watch on. 
I think it is so great when people update in case someone searches and finds a thread down the line 
