Again, be sure to talk to your pediatrician if your baby isn't following this pattern, but, just as adults vary in many ways, babies can vary in the time it takes to progress
from meconium stools to milk stools.
Not exact matches
Your baby will have these
stools until your milk comes in — so the sooner and more frequently you breastfeed, the quicker the
meconium clears
from her system.
During this week, your baby's
stools will change
from the large, black, tarry
meconium of the first few days, to green / yellow transitional
stools, to the more regular yellow bowel movements of an older baby.
I'd never seen newborn poop before, so its transformation
from sticky, black
meconium to green transitional
stool to seedy, mustard - colored breast milk poop was, well, startling.
Once the
meconium is eliminated
from the body, the
stool produced should start to transition to looking more normal.
After
meconium has completely passed,
stool color may be everything
from yellow to brown.
The number of dirty diapers also increases, and the
stools should be changing in color and consistency
from the dark, tarry
meconium stool to a mustard - yellow, loose and seedy
stool.
The
stools will transition
from meconium to a green - brown and then yellow - mustard color.