As the mother of an infant who eats solids, I know that the colors of baby poop can vary widely. The colors of baby poop can range from a bright yellow to a dark green. Usually, you know why you get whatever color shows up in the diaper. You can generally tie it directly to something that the baby has eaten.
For the first time ever, Norton's diaper caught me by surprise. I opened the diaper and found purple baby poop. I have never, in all of my years of changing diapers, before now seen purple baby poop. This wouldn't bother me so much if I could tell why he had purple baby poop. I have never fed Norton anything purple. Nor have I ever fed Norton anything red or blue that could mix together to produce purple baby poop.
I'm stumped. I just plain don't understand how this color came to be in my baby's diaper. I knew that the orange baby poop comes about from eating a lot of orange things, such as carrots and homemade sweet potato baby food. I even understood the camouflage looking poop that came about when Norton had peas and carrots mixed together. There's logic to that. It makes sense that an immature digestive tract would have such a wide range of normal colors of baby poop.
But I'm still scratching my head over the purple baby poop. Fortunately, it was only in one diaper, so it's not enough to make me worry about constipation or blood in the stool or whatever. That's a bonus, at least. Another plus was that it was solid, so it just shook out of the cloth diaper. (I forgot to put in the flushable liner. Oops.)
I consulted Doctor Google to see if I could find any common causes of purple poo and found nothing useful. One site was kind enough to inform me that what a baby eats can influence the colors found in a poopy diaper. I just felt like saying, "Well, thank you very much, Captain Obvious." And, yes, that would have been in a very, very sarcastic way. After all, it's not like most mothers haven't figured that out already by the time we introduce solid baby food into our babies' diets. What would you feed your kid that would produce purple poo, anyway? Eggplants and beets?
What interesting colors of baby poop have you had to contend with? Were there any colors that had you scratching your head?