Waste Elimination

• Waste Elimination

  Sequence: Meconium - Transitional stoll - breastfed stool - bottle-fed stool
• Meconium 


  Infant's first stool
• Passage of meconium should occur within the first 24-48 hours
• Meconium

  Characteristics:

  • color - dark green or black tarry
  • odor - odorless
  • consistency - sticky
  • sterile
• Transitional stool 


  Appears by 48-72 hours (third day) after initiation of feeding
• Transitional stool

  Characteristics:

  • color: green yellow or yellow-brown
  • consistency- loose
• Milk Stools (breastfed and bottlefed stool)

  • appears 3 to 5 days and up
• Breastfed Stool

  Characteristics:

  • color - pale light yellow
  • consistency: soft, mushy-formed
  • odor: sweet smell or sweet sour
  • frequently pass stool - 6 times a day
• Bottlefed Stool

  Characteristics:

  • color - golden yellow
  • consistency: hard formed
  • odor: odorous
  • seldom pass stool