Ladies, what should it be like? Ours is like water with yellow lumps. The pediatrician prescribed La…

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Ladies, what should it be like? Ours is like water with yellow lumps. The pediatrician prescribed Lactazar, and it seems to have gotten thicker periodically, but sometimes it's thicker, and sometimes it's watery again with lumps. We had an analysis done, and everything is normal. What should it be like in general? The baby is cheerful, and judging by my scale, we've gained almost 400 grams in 10 days.
My tummy hurts 🤦 My current diet is boiled chicken, cheese, and plain crackers. Thankfully, I have…
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Elena
Mine was watery with lumps too. It soaked right into the diaper. The doctor didn't say anything, but we did all the tests. Around 2.5 months, it became thicker and less frequent.
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Antonova Lyudmila
Elena Thank you
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Antonina
Alternate breasts less often (feed on demand, but use the same breast until completely empty) - likely overfeeding with foremilk and consequent lactose intolerance.
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Antonova Lyudmila
Antonina How will I know if it's empty? We finish both breasts with each feeding, so the fullness goes away. Should I feed from one and pump the other? What's the right way? My son never had these issues, he'd empty both at once.
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Elena
We experienced something similar with lactose intolerance. A carbohydrate test confirmed it.
Lactase and Colif didn't help. We outgrew it by 6 months.
Thank God it wasn't severe. She was gaining weight well.
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Antonina
Antonina Both breasts are allowed at the same time for babies with normal sucking – but your baby is lazy to suck the let-down. Postpartum lactation was "leaky" – the milk is always fatty, leading to good weight gain. Proteins swell from stomach acid, fats bind them and lactose, forming a food bolus that moved slowly through the intestines, had time to break down, and provided calories. Now you are in a period of "let-down lactation" – meaning breast fullness is foremilk (proteins and lactose that draw water), while fats accumulate inside the breast before the let-down. Fullness at the start of feeding prevents fats from releasing during the let-down due to pressure in the ducts, and when the breast seems empty, either the baby starts fussing (but should trigger a new let-down) or you immediately switch breasts. There's no thickening component, the milk remains watery, doesn't have time to break down – hence the stool, water with protein clumps.
One breast for about 3 hours per feeding, the other can be pumped until relieved.
The emptier the breast, the fattier the milk. Don't be afraid of an empty breast, as fullness is only 10% of the milk. The remaining 90% of fatty milk is intracellular fluid, so it doesn't cause fullness, but it needs to be released with a let-down.
If the problem is indeed the baby fussing, then give the primary breast until empty, then the other for a couple of minutes (to trigger a let-down), and return to the primary breast, where a fresh portion of milk has also been released.
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Svetlana Kovshova
I don't understand this either, are these lumps normal or not in the end?
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Antonova Lyudmila
Svetlana Kovshova It's okay, I'm worried that the water has lumps and isn't smooth.
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Lena Smorodinovaya
Around two weeks, our baby's stools became looser, even though they are on formula.
It wasn't watery, but still, it was loose for formula.
Our on-call pediatrician said that this is how the baby's tummy is handling colic, and if nothing is bothering them, it's not critical.
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Rimma
Good weight gain, everything is fine. Clumps are normal when digestion is happening, it's a variant of normal. My first son had this with white clumps and pooped several times a day. My second son had it less often, everything digested well, but he could go a long time without pooping, he rarely went.
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Klinduh Ekaterina
Your baby's stool can be any color except black or white. It might even be green or foamy, but if your baby is otherwise well, not losing weight, then everything is fine.
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Aleksandra
Ours is yellow with little lumps, but the lumps aren't hard, and the watery part is probably pee.
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