Quinn is a horrible sleeper. He is up 4-10 times everynight. I co-sleep but have recently moved him to the cot with the side off butted up between the wall and my bed. This has not helped.
He dosn't nurse to sleep, I don't rock him, We have a bedtime routine and then I just sit with him for up to an hour while he rolls around slowly winding down and finally drifts off. I'm there when he wakes because the cot is right beside the bed so it's not a matter of waking in different surroundings or anything like that....

He does nurse back to sleep and I think this is the problem. Day time nursings have become a play session, he sucks then comes off and plays with the nipple with his hands, squirts milk has another suck, slides off my laps, gets back on and repeat
I think he gets the majority of his milk calories at night and I am not sure how to change it, if he is not that interested in nursing through the day. I offer the breast often during the day.

Can I offer water at night to make him nurse properly though the day?

I can't cut his calories because he has been maintaining 9kg for 4 months, he only just put 200gms on in the last few weeks.... before that there was no movement on the scales for 12 weeks

crying it out it not an option because he gets severe eczema and the major trigger is heat and stress. So a CIO session would just flare his skin and then he'd be to itchy to sleep anyway...

oh and naps he has two or three half hour naps in the stroller. He won't sleep anywhere else during the day because he can't switch off. I have to put him in the stroller to pysically restrain him so he can wind down.... He's a little whirlwind. He's always been this way, even as a newborn he was super alert and awake a lot.

Sorry this is long but I just don't know what else to do. My early childhood nurse suggested sleep school and had no real other suggestions.