BM in middle of night!!

[Tori's Mom]

I don't know if there is a solution for this issue but my DD is having bm's in the middle of the night.  She has an amazing digestive system and poops 2-3 times a day usually   but for the past couple of weeks she has been having at least on bm in the middle of the night.  Then of course she is wide awake once I change her diaper and it takes about an hour to get her back to sleep.  Is this just a phase that her little body is going thru?  Is there anything that I can do differently?  I tend to think I am stuck until she transitions again but just wanted to know if this happened to anyone else.
TIA

[Jaime]

don't you hate that!  my kids have both done it at times... though i think they were younger than your lo at the time.  eventually, they did stop.  in the interim, i made sure to put LOTS of diaper cream on before bed.  i also tried to give more "poop-inducing" food earlier in the day - stuff like prunes or pears, in hopes that they would be cleaned out before bedtime.

but truthfully, i think their bodies eventually adjusted on their own.   

[zelkad]

It may be coincidence but I find that when our son has fruit at supper he always wakes up with poop!  Just a thought....