Maggie I totally sympathise with you...have you tried other methods of getting him to sleep like in the pram or car? One gf of mine could not get her son to sleep except in a bouncer which is where he slept most of the time till he was 4-5 mths old!
Not too sure about the reflux thing as am not that experienced.
Caleb was a cat napper during the day. It was frustrating, especially with two older kiddies to give attention to aswell.
He is better now and will sleep about an hour after a feed. He's feeding 3 hourly now.
My DS was the same, although he didn't sleep full stop. For the first 9 weeks the only place he would sleep was propped up in the couch, for maybe 30 minutes at a time, during the day he wouldn't sleep at all.
He had really bad colic and reflux, he was on Losec for the reflux and we have a pharmacy near us that makes a special colic mix that I call liquid gold! It is only $13 but I would of paid hundreds for it, from the first time of giving it to him, he settled straight away.
I hope things get better for you, at least I can say now at 6 months, my DS sleeps through the night.
Hi Maggie,
My DD went thru similar she wouldn't sleep in the day and because of this got so overtired that by the evenings she was very cranky and hard to settle.
She did exactly same thing would fall asleep and the min she hit the bassinet, eyes flew open and started carrying on.
What we've found to do now is just let her sleep in her bouncer in the day. She seems to prefer it and also too she isn't flat. When she gets tired i just sit her in it and rock it and she'll fall asleep and when she starts to wake can quickly rock it again before she gets too cranky.
I also find walks puts her off to sleep straight away and if shes still asleep when we get home i just leave her to sleep in it, also those baby slings/carriers, I go around the house doing what I ned to do and when she falls asleep i leave her in it but just take it off me and put her in her bassinet or bouncer.
Good luck, I hope you find something that works for you, its pretty much trial and error to see what your babay likes.
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