2 month old and naps - help!

[Littlelady33]

My gorgeous two month old has settled into a sleeping schedule at night really well - bath, bed, waking just once in the night for a feed, I'm very very lucky. I'm having an absolute nightmare getting him to sleep during the day though, despite him being often the Most Exhausted Baby in London.
Putting him down in the cot he happily sleeps all night in results in screaming to the point where neighbours might call social services. Chairs, bouncers etc have the same effect. He will only sleep on me in his sling, which is lovely aside from the back and neck trouble I'm having carrying 5kg on my front the whole day, has exacerbated an existing issue - osteopath tells me I absolutely have to stop this, right now.
He does know the difference between day and night clearly - but wondered if anyone has tips for establishing a nap routine for a two month old (9 weeks today) and what that routine might look like? his tiredness cues are pretty clear - but he's a real sleep refusenik during daylight hours.

I found a big feed, bum change and down into the pram in a darkened room and pushed back and forth got mine off to sleep. Is there anywhere in the house you can put the buggy and try that? Id then sneak out once asleep. Eventually it got to the point where going down in the buggy in a dark room was enough and no rocking needed.

My dd is the same ((10 weeks). Will sleep in crib at. Night but not during the day.

I breastfeed her on my bed & leave her there. Not ideal but the only other way she'll nap is if I take her for a walk (which is great if out and about). There is no real routine though, I watch for sleepy cues & then go to bedroom

Interested what others do.

Thanks both, yes should try pram in flat I guess but we are in Central London and the flat is quite small!

Harvey Karp's 5 Ss work well for soothing here. Google for demo. Swaddle, side, swing, soother, ssssh. Also white noise seems to have become associated with sleep for my two month old. And a big feed, try to space your feeds out for maximum post-prandial contentment.

Thanks vilainous - I take it your LO has no night / day confusion then? Perhaps I'm being stupid to not use my nighttime methods during the day

Exactly the same here and same age too. Can't devote too much time to it due to toddler

My 11 week old is similar. Sleeps really well at night in cot but in day mostly only wants to sleep on me. Mostly I give in to it put a film on and let her! I still have to work to get her to sleep though, she usually fights it until she's crying then I give her a dummy and put white noise on and just hold her till she stops and falls asleep!

I can never get to a big feed though - she feeds every couple of hours for 5-10 minutes....

I'm fairly quick to use all my tricks; at the first sign of an eye-rub or yawn, try not to wait till crying starts, I pull the blinds, swaddle, white noise, jiggle and sssssh. Dummy if necessary. I also make sure that he's not overdressed if I'm swaddling, as overheating is the main reason my little fella will wake with a roar.

I would pre empt tiredness, if you can. My DS could only manage about an hour and a bit awake at that time. Do whatever routine you pick before the signs show if you can, that way you can try and avoid over tiredness which leads to a wired, wide awake baby who won't sleep.

How long are you letting him be awake before you try to put him down for a nap?? My DD was a horrific sleeper from the second she popped from the womb we figured out that she wanted to be on her tummy (slept properly for the first time ever at about 6 weeks old after we turned her into her front ha is to my mum's suggestion), and that she could only handle about 45 mins, an hour maximum of awake time before she needed a nap. If she was up any longer than that, she would get terribly overtired and then be even harder to get down! The window between her being tired enough for a nap and being overtired was minute! For the first few weeks, it felt like I was spending more time putting her to sleep than anything else, but wishing a couple of weeks, her body clock seemed to set itself to be ready for a sleep after an hour of awake time and her sleepy signs became a lot more obvious