6 week old sleep help

[BH31]

Hi,

I just wanted to check this seemed ‘normal’ and check we aren’t creating / ignoring problems. My 6 week old is breastfed, but never falls asleep after a feed. We tend to do feed, very short ‘play’, get to sleep. She shows her first signs of tiredness around 45-60 mins after waking.
However getting her to sleep involves 15-30 mins of sling, bouncing, hoover noise, bum pats, shhhing and a dummy. All of the above not just some. Cosleeping, sleeping on chest etc doesn’t work, it has to be the above. This makes sleeping when she sleeps impossible 😂
I know about 4th trimester and am completely fine with her sleeping on me, it’s all the actions I have to take - is this ok?! I’d kill for a nice cosleep or sofa cuddle.

At night, from 7-10 ish these actions don’t work and she’ll cry for around 4 hours bless her from tiredness.
She’s not in pain, no reflux etc I don’t think. She used to suffer with her wind but Infacol has helped that.

Some people have suggested dark quiet room from 6pm ish, feed, bath, feed sleep for the evening drama. But when people say ‘bed’, do they mean into their bed and you stay in bedroom from 6pm too? Rather than being downstairs with her.

The one bonus is overnight is much easier, she sleeps from 10-1 or 2 ish in her Next2me, then 3-5 or 6 ish and doesn’t need settling at all, it’s the only time she will just fall asleep.

Thanks for any tips.

Is there a reason that you're doing okay after a feed @BH31?

I think this method was devised by The Baby Whisperer who had no training and the north of isn't evidence based.

Play not okay.

Just that she wakes up hungry, a feed takes about 20 minutes so we then have around 20 - 30 mins before she’s tired again so I didn’t know what else to do 😂 no other reason!

I haven’t really read any books or routines, just feeding when she wants & getting to sleep when she seems tired but I am ftm so that might not be the best way.

Ok so have you tried feeding her when she wakes if that's what she wants then if you do something with her, like a change or waking around the garden, then sticking her back on for another short feed when she gets sleepy?

Seems so obvious now you say it… but no, no I haven’t 🙈 I’ll give that a go!
And maybe sometimes I should see if she’s happy awake at the beginning for a bit & then feed, maybe I’m being too quick to feed as soon as she wakes?

Yes if she's not actively screaming for a feed I'd try changing her and chatting to her for a bit