Anyone else's DC tired but never drowsy during the day?

[AngelDog]

DS is 12 weeks. He gets tired very quickly - he is yawning after 30-45 minutes of being awake. However, he never gets drowsy or in the frame of mind for sleeping during the day. If I take him into a darkened room to get him ready for sleep, he starts yelling and thrashing his arms and legs (which stops when I open the blinds again). The same happens if I hold him & try to shield his eyes. If I don't block his vision, he will stare at everything around him and certainly not even contemplate sleep.

If I leave him to it, he will be grumpy for ages and will eventually conk out if I cuddle him and block his vision (after he's been awake for 3 hours or so) but he will then only sleep for about 10 mins as he is so overtired, so that doesn't work.

At the moment he will only nap in the sling, and even then I have to put a muslin over his head so he can't see anything. I've tried cudding / rocking / jigging him in my arms to see if I can replicate the sling, but he just cries.

Whilst I have a relatively low immunity to a crying baby, I'd be happy for him to be grizzling for a bit if he then went off to sleep, but this is serious yelling and fighting, which makes him get all hot and sweaty.

At night he falls asleep or almost to sleep after feeding, and is then relaxed and drowsy. However, during the day he cries if I try to feed him in a darkened room, and yells and refuses to feed if I offer it when he's tired.

Is anyone else's DC like this? Any tips for encouraging daytime restfulness/drowsiness?

Sounds very similar to our 4mo DS. Only way I can get him to the drowsy state is by walking him in his pram (not always a sure thing and he always wakes up as soon as we get home no matter how long he's been asleep) or with a bf (he's definitely not hungry as he takes a couple of sucks then down he goes). If I don't do anything after he starts with his tired signs he goes into meltdown even quicker.

I wouldn't mind so much but I want need to start giving up bf at some point soonish and so I'm trying to change the pattern (for both night and day) but nothing else seems to work. I always look out for his tired signs and put him down asap but without the bf he just doesn't seem to get to that drowsy state. Tried dummies, rocking and a specific but short nap routine with no success.

Working with the NCSS now but even once I can get him to pull off and fall asleep on his own, I can't see how to get him drowsy without the bf.

AngelDog did you find any solutions?

pinkscarf, I have had some success with this at last, just in the last few days.

There's a description of my method near the end of this thread: Challenging 3 month olds

I'm now going to work with the NCSS type idea to try to get him off without quite so much help.

Hopefully it should make sense, but if you want to know anything more, post a message on the 3 month old thread and I'll see it.