Problems bf'ing at night, baby too sleepy?

[Amibambini]

My baby is 2 weeks and 5 days. She's my first and we are ebf. She's great during the day, big feeds, 3-ish hour sleeps, however from about midnight it becomes a real struggle.

She can't seem to decide what she wants to do. Her feeds become really short, she falls asleep after 5 minutes even though I try to encourage her to continue feeding. She purses her lips and really seems to not want any more. I burp her, then try and put her down and within minutes she's fretting, fussing and screaming. Back to the boob, where she'll fight it for a bit
then whole thing repeats itself. Sometimes she will sleep but within half an hour to sometimes an hour and a half (if we're lucky), she's up and fractious again.

I think she's too sleepy to eat enough to fill herself up, hence quickly waking up hungry, but don't know how to keep her awake enough to feed.

Any tips or advice? It's super tiring and stressful and my partner is now sleeping in another room because of her all night grizzling.

Are you putting her down in a cot/basket? Maybe it's more that she wants to sleep with you than that she is actually hungry.

Have you got the hang of feeding while lying down?

She's got this baby hammock that hangs by the bed, which she seems fine in during the day. We are about 50/50 with feeding lying down. Sometimes she takes to it, sometimes not. She's asleep on my chest right now actually!

It's quite common for newborns not to want to sleep away from you at night. If she won't settle in the hammock I'd just keep her in bed.

I had to sleep holding my dd's hand over the edge of her Moses basket for months.

So last night we both slept much better, mainly because we both fell asleep while doing the burp on chest thing and also some feeding lying down. We both needed our sleep as the last week has been hideous, however I'm not massively keen on establishing co-sleeping as the norm.
Our bed isn't big and there is no chance of it being upgraded or having a cot that attaches to the side as we live on a barge and the bed is built it. My partner also sleeps very heavily and spreads out. I'd just really worry about her safety tbh!
As a short term solution last night was fine but I still would like to figure out a way to encourage longer, more satisfying feeds in the small hours (hopefully resulting in longer, satisfying sleeps!).

Or please, can someone just tell me this is normal and it will all balance out as she grows!

It will! Our LO is the same, but is getting better as the weeks go on.

Have you tried to change her nappy? This tends to work for us, as it wakes the dude up and he realises he's hungry still. Or winding a bit more...sometimes with us its wind filling him up, then when it shifts he realises he's not full.

Sometimes he isn't hungry, he just wants a cuddle, so we wait for him to sleep, give it half hour until he's really out of it, then put him in his crib.

Our LO has reflux which means he gets acid burn when he lays flat...this bizarrely can be worse at certain times of day.

It could just be "reverse cycling" kellymom.com/bf/normal/reverse-cycling/

If you Google reverse cycling you might find out some more...its basically when babies just take enough milk to take the edge off their hunger, so they feed little and often.