10 Times Your Baby's Poop Told You Everything You Needed To Know
bySabrina Joy Stevens
A little bit after his first birthday, my son ate a mashed blueberry and decided it was the greatest thing that ever happened to him. Thoroughly charmed by how cute that was, I bought a giant thing of blueberries and let him happily eat mashed blueberries at every meal until they were gone. We were having a great time until he had a giant, black poop, and I freaked out. In hindsight, I now know this was one of those times my baby's poop told me everything I needed to know: go easy on the blueberries already. At the time, though, I totally forgot that he'd been eating blueberries, so I immediately started texting my pediatrician and scheduled an appointment. We headed in, dirty diaper in tow, only for her to take one look and say, "Oh, I see he likes blueberries?"
Great, I thought. I bagged and hauled sh*t all the way across town for nothing.
As with a lot of parenting things, when your baby's diapers are way out of the ordinary, follow your gut, and double-check any alarming things you see with your pediatrician. (Yes, do this even if it means having to bag and drive around with a dirty diaper. Who needs dignity, anyway? Not moms or pediatricians, apparently.) Chances are, if they're still feeling and acting pretty normal, have a normal temperature and all that, everything is OK. (Especially if they just really like dark-colored fruits.)
And please, please, please: unless you belong to a mom group that is explicitly about baby poop, don't post baby poop pictures on social media (or at least, post your question sans photo, then link to a photo of it in the comments or something). As someone who has gagged on her lunch while using her other hand to scroll through Facebook way more times than I can count, I'd really appreciate it.