angels among us?

Christian was, as is his nickname, a runt as a baby. He just DID NOT SLEEP. He was, literally, up and screaming from 12-4 every night. Walking, breast-feeding, singing to him....nothing worked for long. It took about an hour to nurse and sing to him until he fell asleep in my arms and tuck him in bed at 8pm...then he would be up again often at 9 and i'd start the whole system again (nurse/change diaper/sing in the dark until he fell asleep in my arms...then he would be up at midnight and screaming until he finally pooped out and fell back to sleep at ~4....then up for the day at 6. He didn't regularly nap, he might do two hours of sleep during the day but i had Alessandra so i couldn't "sleep when the baby sleeps".>>>>>>> So, Christian was 10 months old (and had been doing the above sleep schedule every night for all of those ten months...). We were in the park, on the swings when another woman came over to the swings with her 10 month old. "Don't you just love having a 10 month old?!" she gushed and i snarled "no, it sucks. he doesn't sleep..i'm off all lactose so i cannot have my coffee-with-milk (the only way that i could drink coffee but had to stop b/c the doctors and we thought that maybe Christian was so fussy b/c he was lactose intolerant). This mom, who introduced herself as "Angel" proceeded to tell me that the secret was to put him down for a nap in the afternoon...and then, at night, NOT to nurse/sing/tuck in the dark. Nurse him, give him a bath, then.....just put him in bed and turn out the light. "The more they sleep, the more they sleep".>>>>>>> I was CERTAIN that this was not going to work but what else could i do? What i had tried before was SO not working. So...i tried it. The first week, he cried for two straight hours (he is stubborn, who knew, right?!) but then....it "took" and he slept through the night. 8pm-4!! Victory!! It only took 10+ months.>>>>>>> Oh, and that women? Never saw her again. I asked around the playground to other moms and the apartment complex for which the playground was designed and no one had ever heard of or seen her. We to this day believe that she was truly an angel sent to me to save me from the Hell that i was in and help me to bond to my son (after 10 months). I loved him...but didn't like him all that much sometimes (like 12-4 am....). Angel and her "sleep therapy" worked like a charm!>>>>>>> Have you had instances where you felt that something had to be a God-thing? That more than just chance could explain something in your life? I've had a few others that i might tell you about in a future blog posting. Enough reading for today...i don't want to bog you down with an overly long posting (blog-bog?).>>>>>>>