First time mum needs help!

[AnaJayBee]

Calling on the experience of other mums please! My DS is 8 weeks old and is EBF. He is a greedy little blighter and is fed on demand.
He's wonderfully smiley and really interactive, thing is he gets grumpy/bored/upset (I don't know which) really quickly. For example, after he's fed and is all happy and content, I put him on his play mat and he'll happily bat at his toys and look around but after 5 minutes MAX he cries. Same in his bouncer, while I'm busying round the kitchen and singing/chatting to him, or in his little boppy cushion, I'll chat and play and show him his black and white book (which he LOVES), but again, any more than 7 or 8 minutes and he's full on wailing!
Often the only way to settle him back down is give him a booby!!
I wear him in the sling round the house quite a bit as it's the only way to get anything done. We go for a big dog walk once a day out in the fields and woods. He starts off quite awake and alert and ends up lovely and asleep, so obviously he's happy in the sling. In the car seat he'll start balling after about 5 mins too. He won't nap in his pram or Moses basket either, just kicks off after 2 mins. I know he's only little and that naturally he wants to be with his mum, but I read so much about how they should be happy laying on their playmats watching the world go by and it's such a good way for him to learn and interact with his toys and the room around him, but he just can't stand more than 5 minutes of anything that's not boob or sling.
The million dollar question, is this normal??
Any ideas how I can increase the periods of happy without the meltdown kicking in so quickly??
All help gratefully received xx

My boy never lay happily playing on his own for more than a couple of minutes. I know some babies who did. Mine was and still is not one of them!!

I distinctly remember complaining about this exact thing when my LO was that age. It was very frustrating!! He’s now 5 months old and happily entertains himself. I think it could just be time. He’s still very little and his mum is his favourite entertainer! Best of luck!

Perhaps he has a reflux thing so if you make sure you burp him well and don't put him down straight after a feed, it might help. Is he willing to sleep on his back at night?

Have you looked up fourth trimester at all? He's still very tiny.

Thank you for your replies!! Yes I've read about the fourth trimester and understand he is still very small and we spend a lot of time hanging out together and cuddling and in the sling and it's amazing, I just worried that based on what other people are saying their babies are happy doing at this age that maybe my DS should be happy spending time on his mat or in his bouncer. I have to take him to the toilet with me or else hill cry, but I guess I'm not alone in this. I will continue to cherish every moment then of my cuddly little boy and not worry. Thank you!! Xx

My son wasn't really entertaining himself in a bouncer etc until he was 6 months plus... 8 weeks is very young... they don't have very good vision and they don't understand much yet. Keep enjoying your cuddles mama!

As above my daughter couldn't entertain herself anywhere at all for more than a few minutes until she was 6months+. Probably more like 8 months tbh until it was any period of time long enough for me to do anything, and she screamed if I left the room until she was about 10 months. She's 11 months now. Babies are all different. I wished I had one that I just plop down and they would lay happily for ages whilst I did things but that's just not the baby I was given.