Why is it that every time I begin the official process of sleep training, my little one will suddenly, out of no where and completely out of character, decide to sleep through the first night? Why? It gives me such a false sense of accomplishment. And pride. Because, look: my baby slept through the night and I didn’t have to listen to all of the crying. Yay me! And look: my baby is such a good sleeper. Yay me!

Yes, it is the first official night of Sleep Training 2008. Coco should have been up by now for her fist nurse-back-to-sleep session. But of course, true to form, she slept through it.

The last time I sleep trained her, she did the same thing. The first night, she slept for 5 hours, woke up to nurse and then slept for another 5 hours, thereby totally throwing her normal schedule of waking up every 90 minutes or so out the window. But I was so excited that I breezed through the next day patting myself on the back, all the while saying, “oh, this is so much easier than I remembered… so not a big deal.” And then… later on that night…

NO SLEEP…

Huh. Why does she do this? Trick me out so badly? Give me such a false sense of security? This sleep training is so hard, so very, very hard, and I just want to get on with it. Get is started. Train her. Putting it off by another night? It makes the whole cry-it-out aspect that much more difficult to stomach.

I’m going to say something I never, ever thought I’d say… Come on, little girl. Wake up. Wake up! Don’t do this to me. It’s so not funny…