naps not enough

[mum2oliver]

my ds has lots of naps during day.he sleeps for 45mins at a time.when it gets to about half 5 he is frantic.its too early to feed but he is so tired.i really want him to go to bed at 7 as i need my evening.any advice?

Have you tried leaving him for a while when he wakes after 15 mins? My dd, whos 5 months, will often wake after 1/2 hr but if I leave her she will sometimes go back after about 10 mins and sleep for 2 hrs!
WHat time does he have his last nap of the day? Could you let him have a late nap from 5.30 to 6ish, and thEN PUT HIM TO BED AT 8PM INSTEAD?

oops sorry - didnt mean to shout.

How old is he mum2oliver?

Both of mine were like that, ds just about coped on 3-4 naps of 45m, but dd could only manage 1h30m awake before having a nap, so the day was impossible! Eventually at about 3-4m for ds and 4-5m for dd I 'sleep-trained' them during the day. I wish I could remember exactly what I did, but basically I think I pushed them towards a Gina Ford schedule for a rather younger baby, ie 3 naps in a day, waking them up from the last one in time for supper at 5pm.

If your ds is consistently sleeping 45m, that means he is sleeping for one cycle, and waking when he comes into the shallow sleep phase. What he needs to do is to learn to put himself back to sleep again at that point. You could go the controlled-crying route (which worked very well for ds but not for dd) or the going in to him and resettling him with the minimum of fuss and no picking him up route (which worked for dd, but less well than for ds so all-in-all it took longer to teach her to resettle herself).

I really think that it depends on his age - how old is he? My DS (also an Oliver) was exactly the same but at only a young age.....