I hear your pain dusty, DD2 was exactly the same which was a complete shock to the system as DD1 always had mammoth day sleeps from a very early age. I couldn't persist with trying to resettle her as there was always too much going on - DD1 to look after as well as trying to relactate so pumping in every spare moment. So, after a few weeks with no luck with the rocking, shushing etc. etc. I finally conceded defeat and just used a dummy. Didn't want to do it but something had to give. That doesn't work every single time but does most times which means everyone is saner.
She's now about three and a half months old and in the last couple of weeks she's learnt to resettle herself so yep, I think they do grow out of it so you might not have too longer to wait before it all happens naturally.
we had the same thing and to be honest, it felt like I was constantly trying to get her to stay asleep so I just let her sleep for the 40 minutes. And yeah, I know what you mean when you say that she is tired an hour later but I just went with that. there were times when I felt that I was spending longer trying to get her to sleep than the time that she actually was asleep!! It really did sort itself out and now she has longer sleeps.
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