My 20 week old son sleeps through the night (into bed at about 7.30, woken up for a formula feed at 10.30 (he's breast feed the rest of the time), sleeps right through till 7am. It's great, obviously, BUT he won't sleep during the day unless it's for 20 minute naps when I walk him in his pram. Is this normal? Am I asking too much of him to try and get him to take a nap in the morning? I have read that babies at this age can only stay up for 2 hours at a time, but mine wakes at 7, feeds (breast), plays, feeds again at 9 and then is really tired by 9.30. For the last few weeks I've been really hard with him, putting him back to bed with a dummy but he's not having any of it... It's nearly 11 now and he's still in his cot, crying off and on as I pop in to shush and pat him. It's not working, even though I know he's really really tired.
Should I give up on trying to get him to nap and just accept that I'll never get a break during the day? It's sending me crackers. I don't really like the idea of controlled crying, but I get so annoyed by trying to do the most depressing of chores whilst constantly running up and down the stairs to try and soothe him that sometimes I have to leave him to cry, just so I can calm down before I go in to try and settle him AGAIN.
I'm also worried that he's beginning to learn to cry in his cot (he's doing this at night now when we try and settle him in for bed, he never did this before).
Before you suggest a pram walk in the mornings - the pram's down 4 flights of perilous stairs, and I'm already completely knackered from taking him out at lunch time and again in the afternoon to settle him.
Any suggestions?