You read all the books?or, at least, you bought them and opened a few?you went down the rabbit hole of birth videos (just one more!) and you took a prenatal class or two. So you were prepared for the good, the bad and maybe even the ugly?but has the weird of your brand new baby caught you a little off guard"
Vancouver midwife Alix Bacon has heard it all, and she tries hard to prepare first-time parents for the inevitable strange things that will come up in the first hours, days and weeks after birth. In between the rush of pure love and joy and fatigue and delirium come the questions from panicked and bewildered new parents about their new babies.
1. The straight poop

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This is a big one: ?Bowel movements! We get a lot of questions about their poops,? says Bacon. Whatever parents may have been expecting, it wasn?t the tarry black ooze, or meconium, in baby?s first few dirty diapers. After that, it doesn?t get much better, with breastfed babies? early poo being yellow, green or brown and ?very wet,? like mustard, as Bacon says. It?s more liquid than solid and sometimes even has speckles or ?seeds.? It?s not diarrhea (that is pretty much all liquid). It?s just baby?s hypereffectiv...