My breastfed 3-month old has had several sandy BMs this week. It is literally the consistency of sand as if he ate it. The color is dark yellow. Anyone experience this and/or have an explanation for it?
Yes My daughter experienced the BM for about a month until she got on babyfood at 4 1/2 months it changed alittle. It was seedy. She is one now and is still breastfeed she is regular now.
As i recall when i was breast-feeding,what ever my question to the pedi would be about the color or consisntacy of the baby's stool,he would allways ask me what I'd eaton that day or day before. He says the stools have to do with what your eating,which is being in the breast milk,so basically somthing your eating is making the baby stools that color. Sorry that's all he would ever say.
I don't have an explanation for this, but just wanted to let you know that my 5 month old son has had sandy consistency stools regularly when I breastfed him. Now he is formula fed and it doesn't seem to happen as often..but it does still on occasion. I don't think you have any worries!!!!
I actually think that when I ate cereal, and high grain foods my daughter had sandy poop too....I think that is totally normal, I even think back to when i would eat Peanut butter, it would come out looking like orange icing...ewwww...i know...lol...
It could be from him or you eating Cheerios or similar cereal. Babies have all kind of strange BMs.
Both of my kids had BM's like that when I ate a higher fiber diet... Or if I didn't drink enough water...
I also watched a little girl who's BM was like that when her mother tried starting her on rice too soon...
Just a few ideas, I hope that helps!
BM's for breastfed babies are very different from formula fed babies. That sounds normal to me, both my kids went through stages of yellow "mustard", I called it, bm. It also could have been something you ate. If it worrie you call your doc,that is what they are there for, trust me. For my first I was calling the doc almost weekly! Hope I could help
S.
Try drinking a bit more water - my kids went through stages where the consistency of their stools changed due to what I was eating and there were times when it had a grainy texture (and times when it was green, neon orange, watery, you name it!). As long as its still going in and coming out, don't sweat it!
i actually had that happen to my daughter twice and she was also breastfead (for a few months). like the others said breastmilk and formula will produce different resluts...and i always found that when my kids were Breastfed their stools were always strange!
consult your doctor if it keeps reoccuring or if you are overly concerned.
ps... keep that baby out of the sand box!! :-) good luck
