Don't hate me. (Poop question)

smilingeyes2308

I know poop colour and consistency changes with solid foods but DD has had really dark poops lately. Like a really dark grey. Anyone else? I miss the non smelly yellow BF poops. She's fully formula fed now as well except for MOTN feedings. Don't mind the iPad formatting.

sugarkissed

My LO loves blueberries... they make for some pretty dark, disgusting diapers! 

Salemkitty13

When we started solids DS stool turned dark and harder. We give iron supplements now. I think the iron in his cereal caused it at first and now the supplements. Formula is fortified with iron so maybe that's it.

smilingeyes2308

Nope - no iron supplements. I was thinking maybe the formula as well. I'm known for googling everything and some of the reasons for dark stool worried me (blood in the stool). I give her a half jar of prunes everyday to keep her stools softer. I'm wondering if that is what is making them dark? Even when I give her orange foods they are still dark though. I guess that could be because she has a variety of foods.

cputman200

A IRL friend just had a scare of black poop and her dr said to smear some on a white piece of paper. Like you saw black could mean blood. But most times it is really just dark and not truely black.

amy11401

My LO has had dark patches in his now too.  It looks almost like chocolate chips.  I was a little concerned but he has no other symptoms that something could be wrong.  Sometimes it is not dark so I think it is all of these new foods.  I also think it might be really dark brown not black.  I will have to try the white paper trick.

smilingeyes2308

I'll have to try the white paper trick as well. From what I gathered online, blood stools are normally truly black (similar to meconium). I'm almost positive DD's are just dark brown but it freaks me out a little. I have read that brown - dark brown is a good sign that their digestive system is doing what it needs to be doing. I think I just get freaked out because I figured if she eats something orange, her stool should be orange. I guess that was only the case when she only ate one jar of carrots per day instead of eating a whole array of things.