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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although the first stool of your baby, called meconium, might be strange to see, it tells you a lot about how your baby is ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AUSTIN (KXAN) — A dirty diaper may be gross ...

Wondering about your newborn's pooping habits? Pediatrian Cindy Gellner, MD, demystifies what is normal—from frequent poops to the occasional blowout. Learn when to relax and when to worry about your ...