The Trixie Update

I’m going to take a minute here to talk about the character of poop.

Baby poop is a very curious thing. Her first several poops are the sticky, black meconium — the stuff that accumulated in her body while in utero. It’s messy stuff. Basically it looks like someone smeared a tube of oil paint in her diaper. But a little bit of turpentine gets it right off.

Next up is brownish, smelly poop, which I understand is caused by the digestion of blood that was accidentally swallowed during birth. It’s not pretty, but it’s not outrageous. It’s pretty much what one would expect poop to look like. It makes more sense than what comes next.

I was wholly unprepared for the Day-Glo mustard-yellow surprise we discovered in her diaper once the breast milk had completely worked its way through system. It’s insane. It looks exactly like French’s Mustard even down to these little seeds sticking to everything.

My explanation is that breast milk is like 99% high octane fuel and Trixie is an amazingly efficient engine. The fuel is so pure and burns so clean that there’s almost no waste, just a residue of pure pigment.