SP1 - fixed a major bug in stand-by mode

Last night Olivia slept from 7 pm to 6.30am all the way through. We did not hear her once squeak. At 5am Sarita had to go and check she's still breathing... She was breathing and kept in sound sleep for a good hour more.
That's quite a change from the last week (and all the way since christmas time) when she had kept waking up every hour, which makes it 8-10 times - in a good night. In bad nights she stayed awake for a couple of hours in between. That make her really tired during the day... and Sarita nearly insane. (well, she resisted madness very well, but it's been tough for her.) =)
We finally made up our minds to try find a solution and got good and concrete advices from a nurse. The deal was to put her to own room (i.e. my office for now), and teach her to fall asleep without help. The concrete part was the work-out plan, that whenever she's crying one of us shows up at her and stroke her for comfort - but only in every three minutes. That, besides having the poor little princess sleeping alone in the office, felt like heartbreaking... but we made it. (She was apparently quite fine with it from the the start, and cried a lot less than what we expected.) Three minutes in long enough for her to get the point, but short enough to prevent her feeling abandoned.
The result: four nights later she is sleeping 12hours through. Good girl.

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