1, even if the newborn baby doesn't eat anything, it will pull out dark green meconium 6~ 12 hours after birth.

2. Fetal feces are usually odorless, sticky and dark green in color, mainly composed of amniotic fluid swallowed by the child in the fetus and epithelial cells, hair, sebum, bile and intestinal secretions shed by the fetus.

3, meconium Neonates will excrete meconium within 24 hours of birth, and it will be discharged within 3-4 days. Meconium is dark green or dark green and sticky, odorless, and is composed of exfoliated epithelial cells, concentrated digestive juice and amniotic fluid swallowed during fetal period. If you are fed enough milk, it will turn into normal baby feces after 2-3 days.

4, breastfeeding most babies will not have hard stools, nor will they have obvious odor, which is golden yellow, and occasionally it will be slightly green and thin; Or ointment-like, uniform, with sour taste and no foam.

5. The frequency of defecation for breast-fed babies is very flexible, usually 2-5 times a day in the neonatal period. As the baby grows older, the frequency of defecation will gradually decrease, and the frequency of defecation for babies of 2-3 months will be reduced to1~ 2 times a day.

6. The normal color of the artificially fed baby's stool is khaki.

Abnormal stool

1, baby's stool is red.

The bright red blood does not mix with feces, but only adheres to the surface of feces or blood drips or ejects after defecation, suggesting that it is bleeding caused by anal or anal canal diseases, such as hemorrhoids, anal fissure, intestinal polyps and rectal tumors.

Red jam-like stool is found in intussusception; Dark red jam-like purulent blood is seen in amebic dysentery.

Mucous purulent blood is common in bacillary dysentery and campylobacter jejuni enteritis.

2, the baby's stool color is bright

If the color of the baby's stool is bright, it means that when the baby eats too much fat, too much fatty acid will be produced in the intestinal cavity to stimulate the intestinal mucosa, which will increase the peristalsis of the intestine, resulting in a yellowish liquid and a large amount of stool, sometimes the stool is bright, and it can even slide in the bedpan.

3. The baby's stool is green

If the baby's stool is green, and the amount of stool is not much and there is much mucus, it is hunger diarrhea. In addition, some babies who eat formula milk will have a dark green stool. The reason is that a certain amount of iron is added to general formula milk. After these iron passes through the digestive tract and comes into contact with the air, it will appear dark green.

4. The baby's stool is grayish white.

The baby's stool is grayish white, so we should be alert to the possibility of biliary obstruction. The grayish white stool excluded by this disease is called clay stool in medicine. In addition, if you eat too much milk or too little sugar, the fatty acids produced will combine with the minerals calcium and magnesium in food to form fatty soap, and the feces can also be gray, hard and smelly.