False start at bedtime

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Our girl is sleeping well overnight (often 10 hours straight, sometimes waking once to eat). But we have a funny problem at bedtime... I put her down and then she often wakes up 20-60 minutes later crying and needs to be soothed to sleep again. After that she’s out, but I’m not sure why it happens!

Doesn’t seem to matter whether we put her down awake or asleep, with a pacifier or without, etc...

She doesn’t need any soothing after she wakes to eat overnight- I just feed her and plunk her back in her crib and she puts herself to sleep.

Any ideas how we can get it right the first time at night?