Diet: If you notice more significant amounts of bright red blood in the diaper but your baby looks otherwise well, consider their recent diet.Bacterial infection: If your baby is feeling unwell and has diarrhea mixed with red blood, they may have a bacterial infection.It usually appears as a streak of blood clinging to the outside of the hard poop or as little bright red spots in the diaper. Anal tear: If your baby is straining to poop and passes large, hard stools with slight amounts of red blood, this could be the result of an anal tear.Milk protein allergy: Your baby’s poop may appear normal but have blood-tinged mucus (1).These are some of the reasons your baby’s stools may have bright red blood in them. Here are some very generalized descriptions of the things you might see. The last thing you want to do is closely examine your baby’s poop, but it can give you some very important hints about what might be going on and help you get to the answer. It can be alarming to find blood in your baby’s stools. So if your baby seems ill, is not feeding well, or has other signs along with mucus in the stools, save the diaper, and call your baby’s doctor for advice. The presence of mucus is usually harmless, but it can sometimes indicate something more, like an infection or food allergy. Mucus is also common in breastfed babies’ stools or babies with a respiratory tract infection with lots of nasal discharge. It is not uncommon to see mucus in a baby’s stools during the first few weeks of life, then later with drooling and teething. If this doesn’t happen, begin your next feed on the same breast you finished your last feed with. To prevent this, make sure your baby is entirely emptying your breast during a feeding. Your baby needs both foremilk and hindmilk to grow.Ī lack of hindmilk can cause your baby’s stools to contain mucus. Hindmilk is much higher in fat and has more calories. It provides carbs, proteins, and vitamins. The foremilk has less fat and more lactose in it. Things can move very rapidly through your baby’s digestive tract, especially when they are breastfed.Īnother thing to think about if you are breastfeeding your baby is that your baby may be getting too much foremilk and not enough hindmilk. If your baby is exceptionally drooly or has a runny nose, what you found in the stool could have come from undigested mucus from the saliva or nasal passages. Sometimes there can be a very simple explanation for this, or there can be other underlying issues. Stool that is any color with shiny, stretchy strings in it means mucus is present. If your baby’s diaper looks like it’s covered in slime, that is probably mucus.
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