Hi there!
I am a sleep mod
. I will try to help you as much as I can!
I started my baby at 4 months on EASY. She did not really take naps at all during the day, and if she did it was in odd places, I was going crazy and I found BW and it really saved me. We were both very miserable. You will need to work on the Pick Up/Put Down method to establish daytime naps.
The thing you have to realize is that because you are starting late it will be very hard. Expect lots of crying. In the beginning of PU/PD you may have to pick up over 100 times or go the whole 2 hr awake time before you even get a nap. But it IS worth it.
Questions:
:arrow: Where does your baby sleep when he goes to bed? When will he wake up in the morning?
:arrow: What is your babies mood? Look in the book and see if you can identify his "type".
I know it may seem as if your baby isn't tired but I think he is probably very overtired...and gets those second winds, just as we adults do when we stay up too long. The reason he is not going to bed until 12 is because daytime sleep actually creates better night-time sleep. Once you get him sleeping during the day you may find he needs an earlier bedtime.
Suggestions- 1) before you start the transition track your baby for a couple of days. write down all eating/ milk and solids and amounts and how often. Write down all the sleep times. Then you will have a sort of road map. You can post it back here and I can try to pull out some patterns for you. This REALLY helped me when starting out.
2) as you track other info also watch your son like a hawk- look for any "sighing" (could even sound like cooing high pitched) or rubbing of the eyes, whimpers, yawns, or maybe he stops playing with toys or pushes them away, maybe he wants to then eat again (another sign of fatigue- to eat again for comfort and to increase energy). write all these times down and next to them subtract 20 minutes, this is when you should start trying for your naps.