If it's true that when it comes to prayer, there are no coincidences, then last night was very much an answer to prayer.
We experienced the first night in which neither Anna nor myself went to check on Sofie. We can't say for sure that Sofie slept through the night--though it seems like she did--but she never once woke enough to spend more than just a few moments crying.
When Sofie was first born, the adjustment to daytime wakefulness and nighttime sleeping was, for us firsttime parents, a brutal experience. I didn't know you could be so sleep-deprived and not lose your mind. But once Sofie's sleep rhythms resembled less a vampiric one and more a human one, the nighttime wakings and feedings were almost as regular as clockwork.
Then came the Christmas holidays. And while she stayed on her sleep cycle for most of our two weeks with family, by the time we returned home, things had begun to get out of sync. We were home five days, and then we went to San Diego for about a we