Newborn sleeping "best practice"

[helsybells]

My little girl is 5 weeks old and at present she is cuddled to sleep in arms or babasling during the day and fed to sleep at night. She sleeps for 2-3 hours between night feeds and is fairly sporadic during the day as to when she wakes/sleeps and how long for.

I'm happy with this arrangement but I'm now wondering if I'm making a rod for my own back by rocking cuddling feeding to sleep. If I put her down in her cot she is often calm for sometime but fusses and eventually cries, never falls asleep by herself.

I would like to try and avoid problems later on with sleeping so is there anything I could/should be doing differently now to avoid problems later on? Most sources of info I have looked at say it's too early to teach her to fall asleep by herself. Is this so? Is there a middle ground??

[SarryB]

Don't worry about leaving her in a dark room to sleep - where would you rather sleep? In the middle of a bright noisy living room, or in a dark, warm, quiet room?