Green poos

[Willow82]

So my DD is on aptamil and is having dark green poos. Is this normal? My DS was also on aptamil but I don't remember his poos being that colour.

We are having quite a lot of issues. She's getting distressed during feeding, is often taking well over an hour to feed, has difficulty bringing up wind and is distressed after the feed too. She often doesn't settle in between feeds or will fall asleep shortly before her next feed is due.

 

[kristy87]

My baby has been like this since she was born and still is. It almost looks like meconium! The health visitor said there is a lot of babies having this just now and wonders if there has been a change in the water or something x

 

[noon_child]

So my DD is on aptamil and is having dark green poos. Is this normal? My DS was also on aptamil but I don't remember his poos being that colour.

We are having quite a lot of issues. She's getting distressed during feeding, is often taking well over an hour to feed, has difficulty bringing up wind and is distressed after the feed too. She often doesn't settle in between feeds or will fall asleep shortly before her next feed is due.

Has she always been like this (how old is she) or is this a new thing?

 

[Willow82]

So my DD is on aptamil and is having dark green poos. Is this normal? My DS was also on aptamil but I don't remember his poos being that colour.

We are having quite a lot of issues. She's getting distressed during feeding, is often taking well over an hour to feed, has difficulty bringing up wind and is distressed after the feed too. She often doesn't settle in between feeds or will fall asleep shortly before her next feed is due.

Has she always been like this (how old is she) or is this a new thing?

She's been like this since the meconium poos. I guess it could be normal but as she is often unsettled and in pain, I took her to the doctors who said it might be a lactose intolerance. She's prescribed a lactose free formula which we started using yesterday (although two feeds were normal formula due to not being sure how to do the night feeds using powdered stuff) and her poo today was a normal looking mustard colour. No idea whether it's the new formula or whether it would have turned that colour anyway.

Forgot to say that she's 4 weeks old.

 

[noon_child]

So my DD is on aptamil and is having dark green poos. Is this normal? My DS was also on aptamil but I don't remember his poos being that colour.

We are having quite a lot of issues. She's getting distressed during feeding, is often taking well over an hour to feed, has difficulty bringing up wind and is distressed after the feed too. She often doesn't settle in between feeds or will fall asleep shortly before her next feed is due.

Has she always been like this (how old is she) or is this a new thing?

She's been like t
his since the meconium poos. I guess it could be normal but as she is often unsettled and in pain, I took her to the doctors who said it might be a lactose intolerance. She's prescribed a lactose free formula which we started using yesterday (although two feeds were normal formula due to not being sure how to do the night feeds using powdered stuff) and her poo today was a normal looking mustard colour. No idea whether it's the new formula or whether it would have turned that colour anyway.

Forgot to say that she's 4 weeks old.

I think your doctor was right to try something new as mustard poos should be present before day 7 in a healthily working gut. How was her weight gain?

 

[Willow82]

So my DD is on aptamil and is having dark green poos. Is this normal? My DS was also on aptamil but I don't remember his poos being that colour.

We are having quite a lot of issues. She's getting distressed during feeding, is often taking well over an hour to feed, has difficulty bringing up wind and is distressed after the feed too. She often doesn't settle in between feeds or will fall asleep shortly before her next feed is due.

Has she always been like this (how old is she) or is this a new thing?

She's been like t
his since the meconium poos. I guess it could be normal but as she is often unsettled and in pain, I took her to the doctors who said it might be a lactose intolerance. She's prescribed a lactose free formula which we started using yesterday (although two feeds were normal formula due to not being sure how to do the night feeds using powdered stuff) and her poo today was a normal looking mustard colour. No idea whether it's the new formula or whether it would have turned that colour anyway.

Forgot to say that she's 4 weeks old.

I think your doctor was right to try something new as mustard poos should be present before day 7 in a healthily working gut. How was her weight gain?

I'm not sure. She initially lost a lot of weight due to my trying to breastfeed her but not having the supply. We then introduced the bottle and she started gaining. Last time she was weighed she was almost at birth weight. I'm planning to get her weighed on Wednesday at the baby clinic.

Things have gone downhill again. The green poos are back after the one normal looking one and she started getting even more distressed during feeds and we were really struggling to get more than 40mls into her. I spoke to the pharmacist and they recommended colief drops and going back to the original milk. She's had one feed since then where she had it all and didn't gripe at all. So we'll see. I just wish I knew what was wrong with her