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2.5 week old won't sleep

My 2.5 week old baby girl will fall asleep while breastfeeding but wakes immediately after feeding and will stay awake for hours afterwards.

She's clearly fighting sleep and shows signs that she's exhausted (yawning, barely keeping her eyes open...), but she'll stay awake for up to 4-5 hours no matter what we do.

I'm worried that she's in pain or there's something wrong that's keeping her awake but we can't figure out what. She's not hungry, we burp her for a minimum of 10 minutes after every feed. Her nappy is clean and she doesn't seem too hot or too cold.

We have tried rocking her to sleep but even this will take over an hour for her to fall asleep. We're first time parents so are not sure what is normal for newborns. Are we missing something? Is there anything else we can try to help her?

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Something that helped us was using a t-shirt we wore for the day as her bassinet sheet. That way she had our smell. We also did a lot of contact naps or naps while carrying her in a wrap. Sometimes that feeling of warmth or being swaddled helps.

Is she upset and crying when she is in her awake period?

She's mostly just grizzly and restless. She kicks, squirms and flails a lot. She will only cry every now and then when we try to put her in her bassinet.

We either use wraps to swaddle her or use the Love To Dream style swaddles as she hates the arms down swaddles.

Sorry, I just realised I could reply directly to your comment. 😅

What I had to do with my son was keep him awake while breastfeeding- I found he was sleeping while feeding to, so I would open his sleeper and would keep him awake.
Once he was done sleeping I would swaddle him and rock him, or place him in his swing. He would instantly fall asleep when I kept him awake at feeding time!

When he was falling asleep feeding attached to me he was using me as a pacifier, so I introduced a pacifier so he would get used to falling asleep not attached.

Normal wake time is 60-90mins. Sounds like she’s just going past her awake time, getting overtired which is making it harder for her to go to sleep when you try.

Our 3 week old is the exact same! Started at 2 weeks and is exhausting 😫

how long should they be napping at this age?

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