Unhappy awake baby

Is it normal for my baby to never be happy when she’s awake?
I have a 2 1/2 week old baby and I find that she sleeps all day and when she wakes up she just wants feeding and when she feeds she drifts back off to sleep so whenever she’s awake she’s just showing hunger signs or (if we leave it too long) crying to be fed. I’ve yet to see her content and just looking around interested in life when she’s awake. She just wants to be sleeping on me (or her dad) or feeding!

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That’s totally normal! It’s not until maybe week 4 that our bubs started having longer wake windows and just seating peacefully watching ☺️

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very normal. Crying also unfortunately increases up to about week 8 (purple crying) and then decreases after that. My LO is nearly 6 weeks and has much longer alert periods, she's content for most of them generally but becomes fussy when tired and does most of her crying in the evenings

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