[WARNING: Graphic Image Below. If baby poop scares you, then don’t scroll down. It’s worse than seeing baby seals getting clubbed.]
I know this is an odd place for this post, but hear me out. What I’m about to show you was once a tasty vegetable growing out of mother Earth. So, yes. It does belong here in the food category of my blog.
The veggie wedgie is probably the best baby poop ever to walk the earth. Or at least the best poop ever to be attached to your baby’s bum. It doesn’t stink obscenely, nor is it a mess to clean. It just peels right off and leaves practically no residue! Heck, sometimes you don’t even have to waste a wet wipe. The baby’s wedgie is akin to that two-foot no-wipe chocolate cigar that you occasionally pinch off, pat yourself on the back for, want to show your friends, and say goodbye to before flushing down the toilet. (You know what I mean.) If Gavin was old enough to understand, he would be proud. But, since something this magnitude can always be appreciated by a friend or close relative, I’ll be proud for him…and I’ll take a photo to show him later.
The veggie wedgie can be made from many different types of vegetables. (Gavin’s lucky to have a mom that makes most of his food fresh every week.) The wedgie staring you in the face is one such food combination. Well, it probably has a little yogurt and rice cereal sprinkled in there too. The wedgie is pressure-formed and heat-shaped due to that very hairy crack that God placed at the top of our legs for us to scratch. (No not that crack, the other one.)
Now, that I think about it, you are probably wondering why I’m so excited about this. Well, I’m an acupuncturist and I talk about poop with all my patients. Proper digestive system function is extremely important for overall body health. Poor gastrointestinal flora can lead to all sorts of systemic issues, most visibly skin problems. So, to bring this blog out of the gutter I leave you with some basic info on baby poop (Aren’t you tired of seeing the word poop yet?)
- Baby poops while breastfeeding should not be terribly odoriferous. They should also be liquid-like with possible small chunks. They can also come in pastel colors. If it’s red poop or blood-stained for more than one or two bowel movements, you should notify your pediatrician. (But if you fed the baby beets a day or two before, it is likely his/her poops could be red.)
- If your baby is formula fed as an infant, his/her stools will be more stinky and more formed.
- In the early months, breastfed babies are typically leaner than formula fed babies.
- Generally, when baby starts staring at you eating food or trying to grab food from you, he/she is probably getting ready to start eating solid foods. Gavin started eating solids at 6 months old.
- Solid foods usually bring solid poops. Obviously, there is some transition for baby’s gastrointestinal system to prepare for digestion of solid foods.
- Make a habit of using your five senses to monitor your baby’s stools, and consequently his/her digestive health. Well, maybe use only 4 out of the 5 senses. You pick which 4.
Don't be afraid! It's only vegetables...sort of.
Me vs. Gavin 
So glad I stumled upon this! I thought my little man was constipated, but his poops look just like this!
That’s a good healthy poop! Go ahead and squeeze it with your fingers and it should be the firmness of a tasty cheesecake. Thanks for stopping by Tatiana! If you like what you see, follow us for more adventures in pooping and peeing!
my daughters poop looked just like that several times. I was worried about the black because I have read black poop could be a sign of internal bleeding. Help!
Sometimes food will change the color of the poop. A child’s gastrointestinal system is developing as he or she is growing. As you introduce more variety into your daughter’s diet, the intestinal flora will change and adapt. If you’re nervous about the dark poops and they go on for days or more, I’d take her to the doctor and get a fecal occult blood test done. Good luck and thanks for dropping by and checking us out!
My daughter has these occasionally but also had very hard dry poo that I had to give her a suppository for 😦 she gets hardly any solids at all… This is normal? To me it’s the texture of cream cheese in the fridge
You really want to check out what she’s eating and see if there’s a correlation. My daughter had poops the consistency of cream cheese for a while and once we cut out juice from her diet, it quickly became normal.
So glad i stumbled upon this. My baby had mucous + blood in her stools in her earlier months. She couldn’t tolerate cereals so she’s eating mostly veg (sweet potato, apple, pear, banana and avocado. Small amounts of chicken and spinach, pumpkin and carrot caused gas and an unsettled baby of a night. I was stressing and didn’t think her poops were normal even after starting solids. I showed child health nurses and a paed who all agreed that her poops were undigested food and not normal. I then started stressing about malabsorption issues and what diseases that could mean! Her elastase levels in her poo were normal thank goodness. I recently came across some info on baby food which said sweet potato comes back out pretty much the same as it went in. And now I’ve just read this funny but very informative guide to veggie poos! Thanks so much for helping me stay calm 🙂 I can’t believe how much life changes with a baby and how much us mummas obsess over diaper contents!
Thank goodness i stumbled on this! My baby boy’s poo looks exactly like that! He poops between 2-3 times a day with that consistency and i was wondering if this was constipation (and for why? because he poops consistently since we introduced solids to him)