7 week old fighting sleep

[Iamtiredandsoismybaby]

Hoping for some advice here. I’m a first time mum.
My little boy who is now 7 weeks old is terrible at napping during the day & now is fighting sleep at night.
Manage to get 3 naps out of him(one in the morning for about 1 hour, then one about lunchtime say another hour then finally one late afternoon & sometimes this can be up to 3 hours)
We’re currently trying to stop contact napping as I’m not able to get anything done during the day. So being very persistent with him napping in his pram.
Now for 4 nights in a row he’s been fighting sleep until 1am. Will scream for ages & we try everything. We seem to settle him fine & put him down in his baby box but then he’s straight back up wide awake. Even got him on infacol incase it’s colic.
Any suggestions?

I think you're trying to regulate his sleep too soon. My 8 week old fights sleep too but we go by his schedule at the moment. He's too little to have scheduled naps and won't sleep when I put him to nap as he's not ready for that. If I put him down to nap or at night before he's fully asleep he will wake and fuss. I find I'm far more productive in the house if I let him fall asleep on me and thdn transfer him to his bed. If I need to do things when he's awake thdn he'd either in his bouncy chair in the room with me or I use a sling. They're still do young and need the reassurance of contact.
On another note, infacol was a nightmare for us and made him far worse. It's dreadful stuff which just makes trapped wind stick in a bigger bubble. After some research we refused to use it any more and he wad like a new baby. So much happier. Does your little one really need it?

You are doing something. You are nurturing your baby and letting him know it's safe to sleep. It's completely normal for them to need you to sleep at this stage. He will nap on his own when he is ready

At that age Ds used to go down for his night sleep sometime between 9-12pm. Now at four months he naturally wants to sleep around 8 or 9pm. Like the others have said it might be too early for a regular sleep schedule. DD still doesn't regularly nap in the day and only either while feeding and being held or when in the car.

Sleep begets sleep. Your baby is overtired. Incest in a sling, pop him in there and get on with what you have to do. You can try regulating his sleep (whatever that means?) when he is a wee bit older and not exhausted

Yeah sorry I meant that I only put him down for a nap (by feeding, burping, changing & rocking) when he’s yawning. Again at night he’s yawning away but totally fighting us. We let him fall asleep on us but as soon as we put him down he’s wide awake. Fighting a loosing battle.

Totally normal and nobody ever tells you. They want to be as close as possible to you as it’s all they know and instinctive to them. Some babies will sleep anywhere, some only sleep on you, it’s just luck of the draw. The only way I moved from the sofa in the first 12 weeks was by putting him in a sling and he would sleep in there. He is now 20 months and still needs comfort going to sleep (but hey - so do I!).

Read up on the fourth trimester. I think it’s super rare for any baby of 8 weeks to be able to go to sleep in a cot.

My baby is 17 weeks and we still don’t have a routine as such. Day time naps are guided by her and most of the time are on me. Housework can wait/DH can do it.