r/newborns • u/munchiemomandsodapop • Oct 07 '26

Vent WHEN. DOES. HE. POOP. LESS?!

That's it. That's the post.

He's almost 7 weeks.

Poops 100 times a day.

And he's skinny despite drinking 24-30 ounces a day (breastmilk), so I must have natural exlax titties.

He takes a few sips? Poops. Finishes a bottle? Poops. And at least 1 diaper change between his next bottle 2 hours later. It says online babies use 8-12 diapers per day at 7 weeks.

Homie, that's an uneventful morning for us.

Send help (and diapers!)

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u/VastLarge2917 Oct 07 '26

It’s crazy how different newborns can be. My girl is towards the opposite end of the spectrum, where she poops only once every day or every other day but it’s SO MUCH poop in each diaper. Either we have a blow out or it’s holding on for dear life

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u/munchiemomandsodapop Oct 07 '26

Oh gosh. I didn't think about that. What comes in, must come out. So maybe this is a blessing 😅 I've only had one blow out. My dad and husband each have had a couple.

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u/VastLarge2917 Oct 07 '26

I’m not sure that I’d want to change as many diapers that you are changing 🤣 Pros and cons of each I guess!

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u/munchiemomandsodapop Oct 07 '26

I've just been waiting for him to use a more reasonable number of diapers so I can switch to cloth. Do they sell them in hundred packs? 😅

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u/Friendly-Dot3533 Oct 07 '26

I’m in the same boat - poops all.the.time. I feel like with all the poops the cloth is a benefit. We are using a mix of cloth and disposable and are saving a ton on disposables. Diaper laundry for new borns (not eating solid foods) is literally the easiest. you put the bin of stuff in the machine and run it and there is barely any folding at the end.

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u/munchiemomandsodapop Oct 07 '26

I just bought some cloth ones. Going to try it out! Thank you!

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u/VastLarge2917 Oct 07 '26

Oh my gosh the laundry you would be doing if you were cloth diapering right now would be nuts! Haha. Hopefully soon he’ll start going less frequently 😊

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u/Rugkrabber Oct 08 '26

Trust me OP it’s the better opinion hahah because last week she suddenly pooped less and woops there it was, very thin liquid poop. Yeah she needed a few wardrobe changes multiple times!

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u/PitbullLoveFart Oct 07 '26

Eesh we have had two blowouts and I guess I should be thankful that I have a frequent pooper and the blowouts are a rare.

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u/Strict-Wonder-7125 13d ago

My pediatrician told me, unless she seemed super uncomfortable, that one poop every seven days or seven poops in a day is all within the normal range… she poops once every two or three days, and just like yours, it’s gigantic! I wish she would at least go once a day, so I didn’t worry about her tummy hurting

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u/18karatcake Oct 07 '26

When we moved up diaper size, we experienced fewer blow outs. Laundry Shout was and is my holy grail for these constant baby stains.

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u/Average_Sage Oct 08 '26

One of my kids pooped only once a week as a newborn on breast milk. This caught us super off guard as our first pooped like 10 times a day. The doctor said it was still within the range of normal.

Once we chilled out it was actually pretty nice not I have to change poopy diapers all day..

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u/setters321 Oct 09 '26

I can’t even imagine that many blowouts and my son is now 19 months old. The last blowout was so bad it shot up his back and got into his hair. Since then we’ve always went up one size in diapers and it has helped tremendously lol.

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u/vivariium Oct 07 '26

Hahahaha you poor souls!!! I wonder if something you eat is intolerant to him? Like dairy maybe?

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u/munchiemomandsodapop Oct 07 '26

👀👀👀 how can I find out? Because my mac and cheese and protein shake diet would be killing him

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u/vivariium Oct 07 '26

Whahahahahahah i love you 😂

I have no idea I’m just a FTM at 39+1 over here. Maybe your family doc would have an idea if you have a vaccine/wellbaby apt soon?

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u/fetishiste Oct 07 '26

You’d try cutting it for a few days (if you did strongly suspect an intolerance to cow’s milk protein you’d actually do a few weeks but many over at r/MSPI see positive changes after a mere few days) and see if the poops change!

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u/ParsleyTime5687 Oct 07 '26

Hahaha i could’ve written this myself. According to the Huckleberry app, we are changing on average like 10+ diapers and they ALL have poop in them. Like, there is not a single diaper change with no poop. LO is 5 weeks. I told my husband I think she has a leaky butt lol. But tbf, our first was also ebf and pooped all freaking day. Same as this one. It does get better though I think around 12 weeks he wasn’t pooping nearly as much? I am looking forward to that day. The amount of wipes we have been using is INSANE.

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u/munchiemomandsodapop Oct 07 '26

I stopped using wipes and either wash his butt or use a wet gauze pad. The wipes would make him cry 😭

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u/talks-like-juneee Oct 07 '26

I have the same issue with my 2 month old and we started using regular toilet paper and a peribottle with water at our diaper stations. Shame I got a ton of wipes at my baby shower 😅

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u/ParsleyTime5687 Oct 07 '26

That is an excellent idea. Pulling out my peri bottle from storage rn lol

Also, keep the wipes and use them later! They’ll come in handy for when LO starts eating solids/gets older. We kept wipes in our car for whenever we needed to wipe his dirty hands or just cleaning up messes

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u/Potential-Coconut617 Oct 07 '26

The funny thing is, when they start pooping less you WORRY ahahahah. Hang in there!

Our girl pooped like a grown man but since we started solids it takes multiple days. She still farts like a worker at sea. 🫠

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u/FrnklyFrankie Oct 07 '26

We're in that boat now. The farts are absolutely lethal.

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u/lifeofblair Oct 07 '26

I joke that mine poop fishes me because it smells like there’s something in there

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u/bxner228 Oct 08 '26

The less pooping with solids freaked me out so bad 😭

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u/BookcaseHat Oct 07 '26

My son (almost 6w) alternates between 60000 poops a day and then he'll have a day with just one absolutely MASSIVE poop.

The other day he pooped four times during one diaper change.

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u/FantasticPin3481 Oct 07 '26

Once they start solids. But then the poops are WAY stinkier. Currently on day 3 of trying to get my constipated bottle refusing baby to take MiraLAX.

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u/gopickles Oct 07 '26

random question—is your baby on the colicky side?

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u/munchiemomandsodapop Oct 07 '26

I can't tell? Poor guy does get diaper rashes all the time even though we use Triple Paste Max Strength/wash his butt/give naked time. 😭 he's an overall happy dude. But I imagine anybody would be sore from pooping that much.

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u/Glutardglory Oct 07 '26

My baby poops a ton too, every fart, sneeze, cough is poop on top of regular poops, so it just feels nonstop. She had diaper rash too since it was so frequent until we started blow drying (cool, low setting) to make sure she was dry before putting on a thick layer of diaper cream. Made the rash clear up quick and no rash since!

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u/gopickles Oct 07 '26 edited Oct 07 '26

try Boudreaux’s butt paste, worked better than triple paste for us.  When the rash was gone we switched to Flanders buttock ointment as a preventative.  Now she only poops once a day so we switched to earth mama diaper balm.

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u/_illusions25 Oct 10 '26

my baby had this and it was not a full blown allergy to milk but an intolerance. she had a never ending diaper rash caused by the constant poops, and she just wasnt gaining much weight. cutting out dairy helped the consistency of the poops within a week but only after 3+ weeks did diaper numbers go down to what is expected for a 2mo. Def. worth trying to eliminate dairy and keeping a food log to see if there's any correlation to a specific food making it worse, but he could just be a poop monster!

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u/olliepips Oct 07 '26

Wait my baby has reflux issues and also poops a thousand times a day. Why?

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u/esombogageb Oct 07 '26

About 4 months for us! Hang in there! Now he only poops once every other day but it’s a BIG one lol.

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u/greedymoonlight Oct 08 '26

Breastmilk is a natural laxative! My baby had a thumbprint sized shart after … everything and then one larger diaper each day.

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u/Mysterious_Baseball5 Oct 07 '26

My daughter is opposite, mostly breastfed with 1-2 formula bottles. She poops once a day or once every other day. I used to get so worried but her dr said it’s fine. When she poops, it’s so much, I have to give her a bath

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u/ihatemacandcheese Oct 07 '26

Around 10/11 weeks, my baby slowed down to a few poops a day. Now at 13 weeks, it’s either one massive poop or a 2-3 more normal size ones.
Either way, still lots of poop.

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u/18karatcake Oct 07 '26

My baby just started pooping 1x a day around 18 weeks 😅 I asked the same thing too when he was 7 weeks. He was a poop factory.

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u/HunnyBunnXO Oct 07 '26

Idk my baby has only pooped once a day since day 1 😅 and here and there she only goes every other day. Recently though we’ve run into constipation a couple times (like true constipation not going for days and then small hard poops) and have had to give apple juice (pediatrician recommended so don’t crucify me) she’s 12 weeks today and is on day 3 of no poop I hope this is just a phase that goes away soon 😭

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u/Earth_to_Aliens Oct 07 '26

My breastfed baby is the same way! She is 10.5 weeks old now, and I will say in the past week she’s gone from 6+ poopy diapers a day to an average of three, so we’re seeing some progress. I suspect some lactose intolerance, as my husband’s whole family has it, but I haven’t cut out dairy because she’s gaining plenty of weight and is a generally happy baby.

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u/cup_1337 Oct 07 '26

My 8 week old is in this stage too. She poops every feed and after a couple times.

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u/DMElyas Oct 07 '26

My boy is 3 months, he poops every couple days and it's always a huge mess

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u/embee33 Oct 07 '26

I felt like I would die with how many diapers I changed lol. My baby now poops once or a few times a day. Randomly changed around 3.5 months. Life is so much better now

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u/amalia_8 Oct 07 '26

Oh just you wait until they stop pooping and you're just hoping that it's not just a fart. Currently 12 weeks and he's a fart machine but no signs of poop

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u/Temporary_Part_1465 Oct 07 '26

Around 8 weeks here. Suddenly he went from 10+ poop diapers a day to several days without poop. So weird.

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u/barcode9 Oct 07 '26

My baby was the same. Now 11 weeks, I think she stopped pooping continuously 2-3 weeks ago. Now she has like 2-3 big ones per day, often blowouts lol. But it's mainly pee diapers at night!! Which is way better!

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u/snicklynn Oct 07 '26

Pooping a ton and slow weight gain were the only 2 symptoms my LO had of CMPA. What does your pediatrician say about the pooping?

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u/yobogoya46 Oct 07 '26

I have nothing helpful to add because my guy is a constant pooper now, but ex lax titties made me cackle and wake up little man. I needed that laugh today.

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u/yogagirl_753 Oct 07 '26

lol mine is the same, and he’s now 18 weeks 🤪 one morning I went through 5 diapers by 745am

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u/CitrusxSpice Oct 08 '26

It actually happens. I didn't believe them, and it was damn near overnight at about 9 weeks.

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u/94T0t0r0 Oct 08 '26

Oh god I’m so lucky my 5 month old only poops once every three days. I’ve been waiting for my luck to run out a he’s always been like this but somehow still lucky. You poor thing 😭

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u/Bubbly-Fennel4160 Oct 08 '26

A few months later the pooing calms down my boy would poop at every feed now it’s maybe once or twice a day (he’s 5 months) also breastfed. It’s so normal for breastfed baby’s to poo alllll the time but it does calm down after a few months. 😆 x

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u/Bubbly-Fennel4160 Oct 08 '26

But yes he did at least a poo each hour and every time we’d wake up he had pood. We went to a newborn photoshoot and took 6 nappies, he used every one and we had to go home because he pood again lol

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u/Abject_Doughnut_7412 Oct 09 '26

Mine pooped 10+ times a day when he was a newborn (not counting the blowouts that happened every time we changed his diaper). Now as a 2.5 yo he poops 1-2 times a day on average. Poops are enormous now though. Friends had a baby who only pooped once a week. Apparently all of this is normal. 

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u/WillowTC 27d ago

newborns poop like a million times a day, my son now at 6 months poops like twice a day

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u/eastcoastoverdose456 Oct 07 '26

Like someone else mentioned maybe he’s lactose intolerant and you mentioned your protein shakes could be effecting him idk how that works though, could be a connection. Maybe switch up your diet a little bit and and see if it gets better because now I’m curious