Your baby needs to be put in bed drowsy but awake, or you'll be repeating the sleep crutch all night when she -LSB-...] (sleeplady.com)
I am one of those «bad parents» whose children did not sleep thru the night at an early age, and though we have a consistent night time routine and they are put into bed drowsy but awake, they do not «self soothe» or put themselves back to sleep when they wake up in the middle of the night. (secretsofbabybehavior.com)
Babies who go to bed drowsy figure out how to fall back to sleep on their own. (babycenter.com)