I'm afraid I'll be of no help as we rock/pat our DD to sleep. At night she sleeps really well, in the day is a different story (I think I have already been into her 6 times since putting her down and that was only and hour ago!). I worry about creating bad habits too but I don't know what else to do as I cannot just let her cry - It tried it briefly the other day, ended up picking her up after 5 minutes and she just cried and cried for 20 minutes as if to say 'how could you do that to me mummy' - I felt so guilty! Good luck, I will be checking back on this thread!