Your Baby's First Poop May Give Insight on His Allergies
May 03, 2021 07:48 PM EDT Pregnant mothers, as worried and pressured as they already are during pregnancy, might have just unlocked a new way of finding out how to prevent their babies from growing up with allergies through their babies first poo! It looks like their poo won't be such a waste after all. Meconium, or a baby's first poo, is a fancier name for a newborn infant's first stool. It is a thick, green, tar-like substance that lines your baby's intestines during pregnancy. (Photo : Photo by Cleyder Duque from Pexels) It is believed that the very first stool to leave your newborn is bac...