She just doesn't sleep! She has maybe 3 naps a day but approx 45 mins max and usually in someone's arms. She will sleep for longer in a sling. She screams in car seats and her pram( haven'y even bothered trying pram for a few weeks to be honest- too traumatic ESP in a public place! Most evenings she screams, I think with over tiredness. There's nothing which makes me worry there's anything else going on. night time for the most part is bearable, but only because I have taken to co sleeping which is not something I want to do, but it's the only way I get any sleep at all, and then she usually wakes 3 hourly. I Am so tired, and it's hard on my 3 yr old DS too as he doesn't get much time with me without DD. HV just says she'll be getting all the sleep she needs and all babies are different. I know that of course, but is it really possible for such a young baby to be ok with about 10 hours sleep in 24??
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This sounds so like my DS, a few weeks ago. Nobody seemed to appreciate how difficult it is to have a baby who hardly sleeps in the daytime - our nights were ok, he would sleep in his Moses basket ( although still wake every 3 hours to feed). But I'd spend my days tied down with a grumpy baby who wouldn't sleep. It must be even harder with an older child to look after.
At around 13 weeks he started thumb sucking, which helped massively. (He refused a dummy). He still wakes every 4-6 hours at night, but it's a massive improvement. And all of a sudden, at 17 weeks, he has started taking longer daytime naps in his Moses basket. Sometimes even 2 hours! 
I stressed & worried about what to do, even started reading up on controlled crying for naps, but if I'm honest he just figured it out in his own on his own time - it's like he had to learn how to sleep. I don't know if anything I did made much difference, but I did keep trying to put him down when he looked tired, in his sleeping bag, in a darkened room, with white noise. (White noise definitely helps him). If he was still crying after 10-15 min , or if the crying escalated, I got him up again. Eventually it just seemed to click. I hope your LO does the same.
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