Sleep? Who needs it?

I never thought that sleep was a learned behavior. I always figured you get tired and fall asleep. Katie loves to sleep. Some of her fondest vacation memories are of naps she took while in Hawaii and Fiji. I remember the pain my parents would go through on a daily basis trying to get my sisters out of bed and off to school. I would have to say that most people love to sleep and can't get enough of it. Which of course brings us back to Sarah and her disdain of sleep. Experts say that infants need as much as 20 hours of sleep a day. Not our monster. Our little girl likes a few 40 minute naps a day, and when I say 40 I mean 40 to the nanosecond, and then maybe 10 hours at night broken up by a few wake up calls for some boob action. Putting her down to sleep requires every ritual under the sun short off sacrificing a goat to the gods above. Aren't babies supposed to fall asleep anywhere at anytime? I've seen the pictures myself of babies sleeping on top of rocks, under cars as dad changes the brakes, at Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Championships. Monster won't even sleep on her ergonomically correct Sealy pillowtop mattress. I'm sure my wife and I have committed some major parenting faux pas and created the sleep pattern that Sarah now claims as her very own but at some point isn't she going to have to just fall asleep on her own? Sadly the wife and I know that as soon as we win the fight and get Sarah to fall asleep we will be a few short years away from having to fight her to get out of bed and go to school.

Rob