Newborn, no sleep, cluster feeding

We have an 1 week old little girl who wants to feed constantly, especially at night. She seems to be cluster feeding in the middle of the night every night. She is gaining weight well and seems to be feeding well. Maybe using me as a pacifier at times.

I feel like everyone says to sleep when baby sleeps. However, baby won’t stay in the bassinet for more than 15 ish minutes until she fussed too much. I don’t want to sleep with her on me in fear of rolling off. My husband and I have started sleeping shifts throughout the night so he will sleep from late evening and wake up in the middle of the night and then he will stay up with her the rest of the night and wake me up when she needs to feed.

I think it will make a big difference once she sleeps in the bassinet so someone isn’t always having to hold her. Does anyone have recommendations on getting her to sleep in the bassinet better? Or other strategies to get sleep? I only get an hour of sleep here or there and it’s draining.

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