DD is 7 weeks old and barely sleeps at all during the day. Sometimes she will for a couple of hours, and other times (like today) she will not sleep at all. She fights her tireness like crazy - we can get her to sleep and a minute later she is wide awake. We have been told its because "she wants to be around us" - so we have accepted it.
At night once we get her to sleep, she is great and will usually only wake 2 or 3 times (after 9pm or so) for feeding, and after feeding at night will go straight back to sleep no problem.

The problem is that come night time we will try and settle her in the cot and 9 times out of 10 she will create a huge scene the moment we walk out of the room.
We wait 5 minutes and DP will go and cuddle her and she will go quiet. AS soon as she's put back down she will start up again. So we wait 7 minutes, then DP will again go give her a cuddle. DD cries and we wait 10 minutes.
After the 10 minute scream she gets a cuddle and will sometimes goto sleep.. other times, like last night, she wont, and we had 3 10 minute screams before she decided to goto sleep.
I'm not sure this is an issue or not?.. or is it normal? DP seems to feel as though we are "neglecting" her by letting her cry. I see it as a way of tiring her out to make her goto sleep. The episodes to date have probably not gone more than 30 - 40 mins, and i have heard of babies taking alot longer than that to get to sleep, but i do sometimes wonder if what we are doing is the wrong thing? Today she has not stopped crying. Its just been constant and we cant stop it. DP is seriously wired out and depressed and i feel much much much worse (that i wont write on here).

I just wanted to know if anyone has any better suggestions we could possibly try to get DD into a routine or to sleep a bit easier - without getting herself so worked up? (she really lets it fly!!!)

Thanks