Stillhoping - I know exactly what you're going through because I have been too! Our DS is only 13 days old but has been very unsettled between his first two feeds of the day and some days I just have not been able to get him to sleep no matter what I try.

I have spoken to tresillian, karitane and also our MCHN and they've all said to stop stressing about it, at 2 weeks (and even up to 8 weeks) they are just too little to learn any sort of self settling and whatever works to get him to sleep at this age is just fine. If I have to hold him, that's fine, if I have to rock him or pat him, that's fine, if he won't settle after about 30 mins in his bassinet and I have to put him in a sling, that's fine too!

At about 8 weeks you should start introducing some sleeping patterns and routines and by about 12 weeks they are able to learn from these cues how to self settle.

The general guidelines are up for an hour, down for 2-3 (depending on how often you feed - we feed 3 hourly so he's up for about one, down for 2 on a good day) and we try to follow the feed, play, sleep routine but some times it just doesn't happen that way.

Just try to remember the advice I've been given this week - these are tiny little babies who've been living in our bellies for the last 10 months. They need our help to sleep at the moment and some need more help than others, all babies are different.

Hang in there, it gets easier!