My bub is doing exactly the same thing and is a very similiar age to your bub. Apparently it's known as "catnapping" and from the research I have done(my bibles are "Baby Love" and "Sleeping like a Baby") there is little you can do about it. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news! I have heard that some babies grow out of it.
It is exhausting entertaining a baby all day and not having any time to yourself. I have found the best thing for me to do is get out of the house, othewise I end up holding her all day. At least out of the house she has different things to look at when awake and she happily sleeps in the pram when she gets tired, even if it is for only 20 or 40 minutes.
I spent a lot of time worrying about length of sleeps with my first and it's true, you definitely a little more mellow with subsequent children!
Do you wear your baby? I found I had all these problems with my first and clock watched constantly, even attended sleep school. With my second, I wore him a lot more and he slept well like that. Sometimes you just can't get them to go back to sleep and that can last for a few weeks or more....it's can be really difficult fighting it all the time, so I would just let my boy get up, maybe go for a walk in the pram an hour of so after, a drive in the car......keep it chilled out, maybe feed him back to sleep. I find there is normally another sleep either later in the day or night time and they catch up...some days not but others 2-3 perfect 3 hour sleeps.
As for the freakish perfect sleep, ah yeah, I know about that....I think my boy has finally decided to sleep all the way through (5 hours!) but I'm a little suspect in case he changes again!
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