Reducing contact naps for a reflux baby

[Penguinlady19]

Hi,
I am a first-time mom to a 12 weak old boy. DS has reflux and a possible milk allergy. He will sleep well at night; sometimes up to 6 hours at a time, but hates sleeping during the day. This has only gotten worse as he has gotten older. I think part of the issue is that he is so alert and is too afraid to miss anything when he goes to sleep.

Up until 10 weeks old DS would contact nap for at least one sleep cycle, if not two. Now, even contact napping, he will only sleep for 20/30 minutes at a time. This would be fine if he wasn't completely miserable and cranky because he isn't sleeping. The only time he will sleep longer than half an hour in the day, is if he is asleep in the car.

I am lucky in the fact that he will sleep until around 9 or 10 in the morning but, after that, every nap is a battle. I've tried baby-wearing, white noise, sleeping after a feed, monitoring wake windows, everything I can think of.

I would love to be able to reduce contact napping, but it's the only way he will get any sleep at all during the day. The reflux is only exacerbating the situation as DS does not like to sleep on his back for a long time. The reflux also wakes him up even though he is on omeprazole.

Maybe it is too early to try and reduce contact napping, but I just need some time on my own during the day without him attached to me.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

My baby wasn't particularly refluxy but loved his contact naps and hated to miss out on stuff. We did a lot of pram naps.

I swapped him out of the pushchair bassinet into the upright pushchair seat at about 15 weeks (possibly a bit younger)which helped a lot. The motion of the pram lulled him to sleep, but because he was sitting up he could watch the world go by until he fell asleep, so didn't mind the falling asleep process so much.

I've tried the pram, but it is a Cosatto one and it is full of patterns. Maybe, when he is in the pushchair it will be easier because it is just black.