Not sleeping during the day?

Does he wake after 45mins? Each sleep cycle is 45 mins for a baby and then they stir and resettle (or are suppose to if you have a text book baby).
What might be happening, which is what happened with Spencer, is that he feeds then goes down for sleep wakes after 45 mins and screams the house down so you feed him (cos nothing else works) but because he is still tired he falls asleep feeding and then wakes up early again cos he's still hungry and this horrible cycle continues for the whole day until the evening when he goes to bed properly.
I tried everything I had read and suggestions from on here but in the end at 3 months we went to the plunket family centre and with there help and then another week or so at home I finally broke it and managed to teach him to resettle (why he could do it at night but not during the day I don't know).
I actually tried the forcing him to go 3 hours as well and that lasted one whole day and involved me walking the streets with a screaming baby and driving around aimlessly with a screaming baby in the vague hope that he would sleep and wait the 3 hours and that didn't happen ever, even when his sleeps were sorted he still only went 2.5hours between feeds, he only started going 3 hours when he went onto solids so part of it may be that you have a baby that needs to feed more often.

What they got me to do at the plunket centre was to hover over his bassinet whilst he slept then as soon as he started to stir to pat and rub him to assist him over the "bump" between cycles, he woke up and stared at us, smiled and laughed but after 15mins went back to sleep, once home I repeated this with it sometimes taking 45mins and me sometimes failing and feeding him but after a week and a bit he was getting over the "bumps" without my help.

Hope some of that helps, and huge hugs I totally know what you are through and it is wretched.

I agre with cuppatea, sounds like he's waking early from the sleep cycle. I did the 'shhhh pat the bum thing' and would do it for as long as necessary till baby went back to sleep' you will need to be consistent with it..
another thing to keep an eye on is waking and crying and small feeds can be a sign of reflux.... (NOT ALWAYS... so don't want to start another 'worry' for you), but worth keeping an eye on it, lots of info on www.cryingoverspiltmilk.co.nz (I think that's the website) or google it it is the NZ reflux support board.
hugs!!!

I had a similiar problem with my baby. She was grazing throughout the day, rather than taking full feeds and thwerefore wasn't sleeping well. Got advice from Plunket and things improved remarkably! They suggested that I stop feeding her so often as she needed a full tummy to get a decent sleep. I reduced feeds to 2 hourly and eventually got to 3 hourly, and made sure I put Eva to sleep after being wake for no more than one hour. Things definately improved over a few days.

Good luck!

Hey emz, I went through the same thing with Luke, he would sleep 1/2 hour, or not at all and then start all over again! There are several threads about 3 weeks ago that cover this and have peoples ideas...

The other thing I did was make sure that I was putting him back to bed an hour after he got up - though it sounds like you are already doing this. That and a full tummy worked with us. (though not right now, as he is crying in his cot as I write this)

Oh emz! I can sympathise as I sit here with my boy in my arms as that's the only way he will sleep today. I am still in PJs and missed an appointment this morning as time got away on us.

I have no answers for you.