Strange things have been happening here recently. I think I've worked out what it is, but I just wanted to share and see if anyone has had something similar happen.

DD has been fully breastfed from birth. We still feed using the football/twin hold as it's the position I find easiest with my big boobs. Her attachement is generally good - these days she basically attaches herself.

Last week she did a poo that had some dark brown/blackish flecks through it. I had no idea what was going on. However then her next poos were normal, so I just put it down to one of the many mysteries of breastfed baby poo! Then a couple of days
ago it happened again, but then her poos started going a bit darker in general (still yellow but sort of brownish too, and still with the darker flecks). I was wondering what was going on. A quick google search led me to think it may be a bit of blood. I wasn't sure if that meant she'd got some blood when feeding from me, or if there was a problem in her actual tummy.

Then last night she was having her last feed before we went to bed. It hurt a little when she attached, but no worse than a lot of other times - (she attaches well for the most part, but I think both she and I have got a bit lazy with it recently). She's fallen asleep on the boob, and when she came off there was this big glob of blood-y something on my nipple - maybe about the size of a pea, or a bit smaller. As you can imagine, I freaked out. I had no idea what it was. It didn't really look like my nipple was damaged. I had no idea what it was or where it came from. I checked DD's mouth but couldn't see any blood or glob. However, her saliva while clear smelled like blood.

After talking with DH and him examining my nipple we decided that the blood glob must have come from my nipple.

Then this morning, as I sort of expected, DD's poo was very strange - it was black. I can only assume that she must have swallowed a lot of blood with last night's feed .

Since last night I have been really making sure she attaches properly, and now I'm kind of just waiting for her poos to go back to normal .

I guess the point of my post is to find out if this sounds like what is going on... and if anyone else has had anything like this happen to them.

Apart from the weird poos and one blood-y glob I've seen everything else is normal and DD seems fine - happy, eating, sleeping, etc.