Cal newborn - an important indicator of its health. According to the frequency of the chair and its basic characteristics are not even very experienced mom will be able to determine if it is working digestive system of a baby or need to go to the pediatrician for advice.
Many moms make the mistake of comparing your baby with others. Every kid is different and that one will be in the normal range for another become a cause for concern. It is important to remember that the frequency rate of a baby's chair depends on many factors, chief among them - feeding type.
Chair baby and what its parameters are normal
To determine the "normal" if your pooping newborn baby, you need to pay attention to such characteristics of his stool:
1. stool frequency
In the first few days after birth departs original feces, meconiumAnd then set the normal defecation whose frequency normally considered from once per 48 hours to ten times a day. Cocoa crumb usually immediately after feeding.
The older your baby is, the less he Cocoa to two months 3 - 5 times a day, for six - 3 times, and a year - twice.
2. The volume of feces
The volume of feces baby depends on how much food he used before. Normally, it is up to twenty grams for month old baby, and forty - for six-month. Less than pooping baby, the greater the volume of stool.
3. Density
For consistency of newborn stool OK - porridge and absorbed by the diaper. Although embodiments of the norm in some cases may be as liquid feces, and thick. As they get older the kid his stool becomes slightly thicker and is made entirely by differing ductility, and softness.
4. Colour
When a breastfed baby, it can be cal yellow, golden, yellowish green or green. With the introduction of complementary foods, and transition to solid food faeces become darker.
Do not be afraid of green feces although such color and speaks of the changes in the body, but if the baby is not worried about anything, then this can be considered a color of faeces are normal.
5. Smell
If the baby is breastfed, its feces will have a specific sour smell. In bottle-the smell of feces may have tuhlovaty or slightly putrid smell.
6. inclusions
Normal feces baby may contain inclusions such as white clumps (when the body is not completely metabolizes milk), pieces of undigested food (when administered feeding) or mucus from the gastrointestinal tract. The reason for urgent referral to a pediatrician should be purulent and bloody turn.
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