Rainbow Poop: What Former Mom's Don't Tell You

Former parents have secrets. They have secrets about the bodily functions of babies. I am going to shed some light on this for you. Babies poop. Babies poop a lot. Babies poop in a rainbow of colors. Baby poop also smells in different scents of ick, eww and gag. Often times these first experiences with rainbow baby poop make new moms nervous, nauseous and sometimes they make a new mom cry.

Why, oh, Why did our mothers not tell us about this feat of motherhood? How could they not have described the awful smells that would come out of such a cute package? Why didn't they let us know that due to rainbow poop we would change 10-20 diapers a day? I believe it is because mother's know best and think we should learn the hard way.

My first experience with rainbow baby poop almost led me to the Doctors office. The baby had been fine and eating/drinking quite normally. At this stage I was used to the formula poop which is a different shade than breast milk poop. Slowly I came to the solid foods poop. Solid baby foods actually are not solid. They are that mushed up, mashed up veggies, fruits and dinners often found in a baby food jar. Once these foods get fed to the baby, they need to be released. They however do not come out in formula poop or breast milk poop colors.

What goes in, must come out and when it comes to babies it comes out in the colors they have just eaten. Green foods like green beans and spinach lead to green poop. Orange foods like peaches and oranges lead to orange poop and so on. I thought my son was bleeding where he should not have been when he pooped a light shade of pink. Instead of rushing to the Doctor I phoned him.

Thankfully, he (my doctor) explained that it is quite natural for babies to poop in all colors of the rainbow when they start eating solid foods. No need to worry unless the baby was having trouble going, having diarrhea or wouldn't eat. Then it was time to take him to the doctor otherwise everything was quite normal.

Rainbow poop and all of its lovely (gag) scents are quite normal. Now you know the secret. Tell other mother's to be so they will not be unfamiliarly initiated in the secret silence group. It may just save a moms sanity.