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Sounds like a regular 7 week old. I couldn't even get away with placing DD down. She'd wake up instantly.

I changed a couple of things that got her sleeping off me around 2 mo. First, I realised she wanted to comfort suck but refused a pacifier so I taught her to suck her thumb. I also decided to place her on her tummy to sleep, so she could reach her thumb. I got her on an eat-play-sleep schedule to differentiate feeds from sleeping time. In the end, that got naps under control until around 11 mo when she dropped thumb sucking and it all went out the window.

I could have written this post. My dd is four months this week. She has reflux well and needed her head to be in a slightly tipped back position to be comfortable. My husband and I spent her first 8 weeks spitting thr night staying awake holding her up. At that time I couldn't put her down, would shower before my husband left to work, held her in my arms to use the bathroom. I don't remember exactly when it got better but around. 10 weeks a friend of mine let me borrow a swing, not the mamaroo which we returned cause dd hated it. She would nap in the swing and if was so great! Then we slept her in the swing, not turned on at night and she would sleep 5-6 hrs. Now she's 4 months old this week and naps and sleeps in her pack and play next to our bed (In Merlin sleep suit- the best invention every). I think that started around 3 months as I remember before she was born thinking she d be in her own room by three months and we were thrilled she was out of arms by 3 months. Hang in there, it does get better. I've had her off the Zantac for over a month now too. You are doing great! You will survive! And eventually you will feel like you can do it again w another baby!

Mine was like this too but around this age, we discovered she would nap in the swing for at least a few of her naps each day. It made my life so much easier to be able to put her down for a little while each day. Transitioning out of that was tricky but probably no worse than transitioning out of having her sleep on me or in the stroller.

@Portboston: I think this lasted until about 2/2.5 months. We started putting her down in the swing (which was still a bit of a 'crutch'), and though she never really napped longer than about 40 minutes at a time on her own, the swing was a big help. We transitioned to a crib for naps around 4 months, and it was pretty tough, but she learned to fall asleep mostly on her own, and actually napped in a crib.

@Portboston: same with my 11 week old! It's gotten better in the last 10 days- but her naps are still quite short all I can say is just keep trying - we started singing the same song to her which has become a moderately good sleep cue. We still have nap fails but it's gradually improving- hang in there!

ETA we are still not able to put her down awake for naps/bed time. But it's still a victory when you can put them down asleep. One thing at a time!

@Portboston: I feel like we are kindred spirits through our "challenging" babies. I'm lucky if DD will even nap on me, some days she literally won't even fall asleep on me. Today she did after being over tired allll day so I held her for her nap.. For 3 hours!! I can't even get a glass of water for fear of waking her up. Oddly enough, she sleeps perfectly at night?! If she didn't get so grouchy during the day due to her lack of sleep it probably wouldn't be so bad. Getting nothing done here. I think I'm going to start recreating her night routine and laying her down for naps upstairs to see if it helps. Hang in there!

@Portboston: This was me and LO, from about 5 weeks till about 4/5 months. I'm pretty sure I posted all about it last year. I couldn't even put him down for naps, not even for a minute. It was kind of torture. I was spending literally 3-4 hours a day in his nursery, on the glider. It didn't get better until we sleep trained. He was fine motn but we sleep trained for bedtime and that was really all he needed to figure out how to fall asleep on his own. So I didn't really have to nap train.
(Of course, now, I miss those days because now he can only sleep in his crib!) I just sucked it up and held him because I preferred to hold him and have him sleep vs. him not sleeping at all. I got by by reading a lot on my kindle, and watching lots of netflix on my phone with earbuds.

My dd was exactly like this at that age! I want to say it got better around 12 weeks for us - we just worked really hard at naps. I would put her in her crib when she was sound asleep, even if it was for 20 minutes and she has gotten used to it. She still sleeps better on me, but she has worked her way up to 40-60 min naps. Hang in there

Sounds about right. My 9 mo old still wants to be held for naps, lol!

We had the same issue when DS was a newborn. We did have luck sometimes if we swaddled him and got him fully asleep and then placed him in the swing. The swing never put him to sleep, but it would help keep him asleep. Sometimes.