I advise to do fecal occult blood. in it. Black stool in a baby older than a week is unlikely to be meconium. Poopy looks darker and like it has spinach (i know, gross!) Feed baby avocado and that is one huge weird looking oily mess. black stools usually indicate blood in the stool, you should go have it checked out, that's probably what the black specks are as well. Just looked online on yahoo answers and a lady on there reckons that every time a baby eats banana they get black bits of stringy stuff in their poo, which makes sense as Elsie had her first bit of banana the day before? Exactly same thing happened to m daughter after eating banana, which was here first solid food. Dark grey baby poop. Cases, where dark black poop is not normal, is if your baby does not drink iron-fortified formula. It could be something as minor as internal hemmorhoids, or as serious as colon bleeding. Is it normal to black stringy specs in baby s poop after eating banana for the first time? Has you LO been eating banana? To my opinion, B-12 is often associated with black specs in stool. You really should have it checked out by a Dr. Thick, black stools in 3-month-old babies (or older) can be an indication of bleeding in the digestive tract, and you should call your pediatrician right away. Elsies last poop of the day yesterday had loads of little bits of what looked like black string in it... has anybody had this? Baby poop that's dark grey is a cause for concern. Take care! I think some medicines can cause discoloration of your stool as well, especially iron. Older babies can develop black specks in their stools for the same reasons … My son is 4 months old and I introduced bananas today for the first time and these occurred in his stools although he didn't eat much.I was wondering if its the banana or sth else.Thank you Eating banana does not cause your stool to become black. To determine whether the black specks in stool are caused by the Giardia lamblia protozoa, check for the presence of associated signs and symptoms such as watery and foul-smelling stools which may sometimes be greasy, extreme exhaustion, pain in the abdomen, a bloated tummy, flatulence, loss of weight, and nausea. If you see black specks in your stool, think about what foods you ate in the past 24 to 48 hours that could’ve caused them. You can send to me a photo of your stool for better judgment. I think I only made the connection after cleaning a muslin that had dried on banana dribble on (after a day out:lol:) and seeing the same wiggly black bits on there too. I used to find tiny wiggly black specks like little fibres after my two had eaten bananas! Has you LO been eating banana? Dr.Klerida Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar Follow up: Dr. Klerida Shehu (39 minutes later) Ok...sounds good, while gross, … If you mash banana and let it sit for a while, you will see that the same black flecks will appear after a while.