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Before being a mother, I hate it when someone’s discussing about poo poo openly, expecially over meals. It sounds dirty and disgusting to me when my MIL and SIL discussing about Xin Yi’s or Li Wei’s poo poo of the day during dinner and acted no big deal about it. If the description had gone too far, my other SIL (who doesn’t have kids) and I would ask them to stop talking about it.

But after having Justin, I can clean his poo poo, talk about it, or even have it on my hands without bothering me a bit. What a drastical change huh?

I’m not sure what formula-fed babies’ poo poo look like as Justin’s started supplemented with formula when he’s 9 months old. At that time, he had been taking solid food, so his poo poo was like any normal adult’s poo.

However, breastfed babies’ poo poo are very watery, and yellowish or orange in colour. Besides that, both my babies have very explosive poo which shoots a distant away.

I have a few funny incidents with their poo. With Justin, my MIL liked to potty train him to poo during my confinement. She’d place 2 pieces of newspapers in line as Justin’s poo could go quite far. Then, she’d say “mmm mmm” and hoped that Justin’d pee or poo, and whenever he did pee or poo, she’d happily tell me that she could train him to be a clean baby. I don’t like to do it as I was too lazy and it’s only coincident to me that Justin did it when she wanted him to do it.

But Justin would show some signs when he’s about to poo after a few weeks old, so I’d rather bring him to the toilet and let him “shoot” in the loo. Once I thought he’s done his business, so I brought him back to the room and opened the drawer to get him some clean nappy. But this little boy decided to let go an explosive poo again and poo directly in the drawer. I was panic and clueless of what to do with the drawer of baby’s clothes and nappies coevered with poo! I called hubby and MIL for help! It took us a while to clean the tier of drawers, moved out and washed the clothes and nappies, and cleaned up Justin. Until today, I still found it funny when I see the drawer which once filled with Justin’s sh*t.

Besides that, Justin would poo immediately after or during a feed during the first few weeks. Sometimes his nappy was not tightly wrapped and when he poos when he’s still nursing, I’d have his poo on myself, pillow or my bed. It’s really messy and involved lots of cleaning up after that. And I didn’t have a maid back then!

Of coz, it’s the same with Isabelle. She had her poo poo on my sink, on my wall, all over the playpen and cot, and also on me, hubby, MIL, SIL and my maid. Whenever I thought she’s done and cleaned her up, she’ll poo again!

However, the best thing about breastfed baby’s poo is it’ll stop for a few days once the baby’s digestive system is mature. I remember Justin would go without a poo for about 10 days and that got my MIL worried. She continued doing the newspapers thing to get Justin poo for days and got really stressed out when she failed. Ha! On the other hand, I was really glad that Justin didn’t poo for days. Less work to do!

Now, I’m waiting for Isabelle’s turn to worry MIL. Ha!

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