Independent Sleep Foundations - Two Month Old

Hi everyone!

I'm a FTM trying to establish some good independent sleep habits in my two month old son before launching into sleep training at four months.

We have issues with day naps. I've been reading the Sleep Sense program (amongst others!) about getting him to sleep without sleep props. My question is, what have others done when they are trying to put baby down awake multiple times (in that attempt to have them fall asleep independently) - most of the time my son ends up awake