Green poo is sometimes an indication of too much fore milk, not enough hind milk. How long is she feeding on each side for? If she is feeding and comes off, instead of switching her to the other side I would try putting her back on the first side again. If she pulls off it could be your hindmilk is coming through quite fast so recline as you feed and gravity should slow the milk down.
Green can be quite normal.
Have you been on Antibiotics at all or has she had diarrhoea? Sometimes that can strip the gut of lactase, leading to temporary lactose overload and green poos (mroe sort of frothy though...).
Or else it could be a fast/foreceful letdown, which has the same sort of effect. Does she pull off or fuss a lot as you letdown?
The starvation poo that your mum is referring to woudl be dark green lumps of poo, indicating insufficient milk intake, which is not at all what you describe.
How did you get on with the breastfeeding clinic? Things going ok otherwise?
Traveller - Ta I've heard that - but It's not frothy at all, and she seems fine otherwise. She doesn't pull off, gulp frantically or anything like that when I do feed her and whilst I know my letdown has gotten faster (because I did some expressing before feeds last week to try and help stimulate supply and to use to top-up to try and not increase the formula and I the milk squirts at now instead of slowly trickling) I still don't really have much in there (at least not stored in there, or it would come out with the pump as letdown straight away) so think i must make milk as bub feeds so doubt very much its too much foremilk. she feeds at least 10 minutes from the side and her sucking has always slowed to comfort sucking (and usually sleeping) before she lets go and I switch breasts.
Marcellus - I don't know - how can you tell Diarrhoea? She had a very slightly blocked nose as we all had colds but has seemed well other that. She gained 180g last week which the nurse was happy with, and that was with only the one formula top up a day so mostly my milk so am chuffed about that. Other than that I don't think I'll go back there - I doubt very much she's an IBCLC as she seemed really blaze and uninterested and didn't have any advice at all. The local chemist has much better scales so I will weigh her there. You get what you pay for I suppose - they're free for a reason '
Thanks for letting me know what a 'starvation poo' really looks like - I am much more at ease as is not that at all.
Am wondering after googling like mad if it might be dairy sensitivity the formula is dairy based and I have a LOT of dairy.
Issues with dairy protein is a possibility also. I'd recommend getting advice from a pead or someone like that to diagnose properly though. Lactose intolerance is often incorrectly diagnosed, for instance, but is actually extremely rare in babies and when there is an issue it's more likely to be with with protein (if anything).
DS did some funny poos on day 2 I think, which were mucousy, and our paed did a bunch of tests and mentioned the possbility of dairy protein intolerance/allergy. So maybe it'd be worth checking out. HAving said that, sometimes the poos are mucousy, and it doesn't necessarily mean there's anything seriously wrong (and DS doesn't have a problem with dairy either).
You could also try calling the ABA - they'd know what is normal for breastfed baby poo too.
Sas- it sounds to me like you are doing a great job, i would try not to listen to your mum's advice that its a starvation poo (unless she is a paediatrician of course!)
My 10 week old DS has had quite a lot of green poo's, usually when he has been quite windy and not burped so well after a feed. They have been a bit mucousy lately too and as he has a bit of runny nose at the moment i have just put it down to that.
Actually, it could just be due to illness, like appletree says. Maybe just wait and see if it clears up in the next few days. If it were a more serious problem then she wouldn't be putting on weight so well.
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