Dark green poo in 4month old...

For the past 3-4 days Cole has had relly dark green/almost black poo, a bit smelly and sort of stringy looking.

He has been quite whingey and grizzly and only wants mummy.

He has also been waking up aerlier (6.30am instead of 7.30/8am) though I've put this down to it being really light early until daylight savings starts this weekend.

Oh yeah, he's fully breastfed too and I havent eaten anything unusual or different this week either...

Do you reckon he's teething? I cant really feel anything in his gums, thy seem quite hard but nothing about to poke through.

I cant remember Lucy getting this dark green smelly poo when she was teething, she was more the bright yellow diarrea type....has anyone else seen this?

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xxxCaz

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He also might have picked up a bit of a bug, because that can make the poos green. He might not have been symptomatic, becuase his body may have fought off the bug (hence the green poos ;) ).

Jessalyn has green stringy poos when there is excess bile being dumped from her liver, so I know that bile dumps look green, glugy and stringy - but that wouldn't be the cause of Cole's green poos - unless he had been in contact with some kind of toxin or something that was processed by the liver making more bile than usual.

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Mmm, his older sister Lucy wa really sick last week with an ear infection & UTI, maybe he got something from her?

Someone else just mentione ot me that green poo indicates an excess of iron, which I'm not sure about cos I usually have an iron deficiency...