sleeping during the day

[joGENNARD]

My 9 week old son wont sleep during the day, feeds every 30 minutes and cries for most of the time he's awake. I've tried rocking him to sleep which doesn't work at all, feeding him to sleep, lasts 20 minutes max, taking him out in the car - only lasts as long as the cars moving and finally, leaving him in his cot to see if he'll go to sleep on his own. I'm running out of ideas!!!

Have you swaddled him?

played some repeatative music?

He sounds overtired, how is he at night?

Sorry - don't really have any suggestions (except we bought one of those hanging a frame swing things and it allllways got him off to sleep).
Bumping ya up.

We had the same with ds, usually means over tired as he fights it.Still only naps in the day, but sleeps well at night, only up 1-3 times in the night.
Now just cuddle him, till he falls asleep even if he cries. Also found that jigging him about can make him worse.

HI
This sounds exactly like my 6 week old.We worked out 2 things,
1- he is sensitive to light and noise, always sleeps quite well at night
2-he gets over tired easily and if he doesn't get off he gets more and more distressed and then nothing helps him

We have done several things which have helped enormously.
We are now very aware of when he is getting tired or just plain had enough.At the slightest sign (a yawn, hands to face, jerky arm movements, a cranky noise in the back of his throat) he goes down in his basket. The thing that made a big difference was a CD someone recommended.White noise, ie household sounds like washing machine , vacume cleaner.We put this on as he goes into his basket in a dark room.Not only does it help him go off to sleep but the noise from outside and in the house no longer wake him- it is fantastic and works 95% of the time. We got one called "little sleepy head" but there are lots.
we started a sleeptime routine this week which seems to have helped him sleep better in the day.Someone told me babies like this need a sleep routine.we do have to listen to some crying when our son goes down but usually no more than 20 mins, whereas before I could be cuddling him whilst he was screaming for 1.5 hours at a time.
Some days he is just tired all day and nothing seems to work but those days are now the exception rather than the rule.
whatever you try you need to persever cos they work out what your up to and often revert to type on the occasional day.
hope some of these things help

today as ds was getting tired we put him infront of the washer in his bounce chair on vibrate, and he went to sleep.Dont know if it will work again but worth a try.

Swaddling and a white noise CD really worked for our ds when he was newborn. We somnetimes used the static on the radio with our ds when desperate /

Ds was just like this and was also overtired. Unfortunately the pushchair rarely worked even if you kept walking (would take about an hour of walking and him crying for him to get to sleep and he would sleep 20-40mins max)

A sling did help and he would stay asleep in that eventually so I sat and watched TV for severeal hours while he slep sometimes (those were the days). He always cried before sleep though for quite a while. The sling just made me feel better as he was close to me and I could do stuff even if he was crying. Eventually he would fall asleep in it.

BTW he would generally feed then be happy for a while (30-40mins) then start getting upset - I would try and feed him again and he would get more upset - eventually I worked out he wanted to sleep but couldn't (the breastfeeding just seemed to upset him more when he was like that)