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My 5 week old baby has been bottle fed recently instead of breastfed bc i take pain meds for csection pain. his pampers have been full of a green poop but not watery and white specks could be formula idk. what is normal poops for bottle fed babies?

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Dr. Yvette Kratzberg
Dr. Yvette Kratzberganswered
Pediatrics 25 years experience
Normal poops: Baby BM's can be yellow, green or brown. Where breastmilk feeding babies have liquidy, seedy poops, formula fed babies may have more pasty or thicker poops. Sounds like your baby has normal poops.
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