Surprised to find yourself obsessing about baby poop? Like other new parents, you may be a little taken aback by the variety of colors and textures your baby produces. If you run across something new ...

Most new parents will agree — the amount of thought and conversation surrounding a new baby's bowel movements is . . . plentiful. And probably surprising. With limited options for communication with a ...

In the first few days of a baby’s life, they are likely to pass dark, sticky, thick stools called meconium. This is a very ...

Research is unveiling the surprising, lifelong impact of what enters a baby's gut in the days after birth. It's 2017 and two technicians at Queen's Hospital pathology laboratory in London wait ...

An international team of scientists who spent five years studying the poo of 647 Danish babies found something astonishing. The nappy samples contained 10,000 species of virus—10 times the number of ...

Evelien Adriaenssens receives funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Medical Research Council (MRC). She is affiliated with the International Committee on ...

Baby's first poop is one of the first milestones your little one will hit — maybe even before coming out of the womb. The official name for this bowel movement is called meconium and fair warning: it ...