11 week old baby- not sleeping during day!

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Bit worried that my 11 week old DS isn't getting enough sleep during the day- he sleeps well in the evenings and at night (that I should be grateful for I know!), so going down at 7pm, waking at 10-10.30pm for a feed, back down until 3-4am then feed, then wakes usually between 6-7am.

However, the last week or so has barely been sleeping during the day, even when I try and put him down for a nap or out in the pram. Today he slept for 10 mins this morning at 9am, then 45 minutes over lunch, and now is currently napping and has been for 30 minutes. Yesterday he had 4 short sleeps of 20 minutes during the day. Once he's had even a tiny nap he seems to be happy to be on the go again- constantly kicking legs and wriggling around, he's like a machine! Lots of smiles so he's probably okay, but is too little sleep going to affect his development? He's my first so i've no idea what's normal and what's not!

Will he sleep in a sling?

Could it be you're letting him go too long before you try to get him to nap and then he can't stay asleep for long? Most babies can stay awake for 2 hours at a time at this age, some for less.

That's the thing- i always try and put him down 2 -2 1/2 hours after he last woke- usual routine was nap at 9am for 45 minutes, sleep 12ish for 2 hours and then short nap about 4.30pm, but this seems to have gone out of the window the last week and he just won't sleep!

He would sleep in his sling, but even then when i've taken him out in it this week at his usual lunchtime naptime, he's busy trying to look around and just doesn't seem that bothered about sleeping... it's like he doesn't want to miss out on anything!

I would say he needs to nap after being awake for about 1.5hrs, at that age my son would get grumpy and overtired if he went any longer, but some babies just don't sleep as much as the books say, my son would only nap for 30mins to 1hour at a time :-)

I agree with buffy, maybe try to get him down sooner? Whisk him off to bed at the first yawn or eye rub.

My ds also didn't sleep for more than 45 minutes at a time until he was 7 months old. I would let him have a 45 minute nap in the morning, then the afternoon nap I would feed/rock/sling him back to sleep after the first 45 minutes so he got at least one decent nap a day, then let him have a 45 minute late afternoon nap.

I don't have children yet but my mum says that from about a month old my brother never napped for more than 20 minutes each day (but then slept quite well at night). He also used to cry unless she held him constantly, and even then he cried quite a lot. She was in tears to the health visitor saying there must be something wrong with him, perhaps he couldn't tolerate her breastmilk etc. HV took one look at my big for his age, thriving brother and just laughed. He was perfectly normal, though really difficult for my mum to parent until he became mobile, and that seemed to lessen his frustration at the world. He grew up perfectly normally, so it is a pain but some babies just don't sleep during the day. I'm surprised my mum went on to have me after dealing with him!