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[quote=Anonymous]Wow. Interesting--I thought we were the only ones! We just went through a couple months of this with our 3.5 year old and thought it would never end! He would wake us up crying to change the night time diaper pretty much every night or in the early morning sometimes too. It was brutal. He had finally potty trained a few weeks before that, so I think it was related.

In terms of possible ways to deal with it--we moved dinner a bit earlier so we could sit him on the potty for a good 45 minutes before bath. He read books and chatted with Daddy while he went. Sometimes worked, sometimes didn't.Then we decided to just play it cool--no getting on his case about going in his diaper and basically just silently changing his diaper and putting him back to bed. Then one day, he stopped doing it. It's been 6 weeks and hasn't happened since--poops in the potty in the afternoon now.

I think it's a phase--clearly somewhat common. Fingers crossed that your little one moves through it quickly!![/quote]

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