So D is 11 weeks and I'm really confused about his sleep. Up until recently his sleep had slowly been getting better, but we were still struggling with really short stretches. He would typically do a 3 hour stretch, then 2 hours and around 5/6am 1-1.5 hour stretches. We just started daycare last week and the days he went there (Monday-Wednesday), he was so exhausted he sleep a 6 hour one day and a 7 hour stretch the next day. Then when he was home with me it was like his sleep had regressed to what he was doing a month or more ago.

When he's home he naps really well. I usually get a 2-3 hour nap out of him in the morning and then various naps in the afternoon. At daycare he was taking 20-45 minute naps about 3-4 times a day.

Everything I've read about baby sleep says that sleep begets sleep and he should sleep better the days he's home and well rested and not over tired. But the reality is that he's so exhausted after short naps all day and huge wake times, that we're finally getting decent stretches out of him. I don't understand how this makes any sense or what to do to get those longer stretches when he doesn't go to daycare.