1 week old will NOT sleep unless held *long post*

I am completely at my wits end and need advice (even though I’ve researched and researched and tried so many things already). My newborn is about a week old. Since coming back from the hospital she has struggled with sleep.

She already cluster feeds many hours of the evening or night. I just got my milk in 2 days ago and still working on building the supply. When I feed her it typically doesn’t hurt, but after hours of rotating from one nipple to the next my nipples just get so sore and sensitive. But I keep with it. I don’t believe it’s a latching issue of her not getting enough because many times when I pull her away or she detaches there is visible milk that falls from her mouth. The main problem we seem to have that it all comes down to is she will not sleep unless in someone’s arms. We have a bassinet that we want her to sleep in. Every time she is laid in it she either cries right away or around 2 minutes after being placed in it. When she cries it stops pretty much instantly when she’s picked up. It’s a never-ending battle of trying to get her to a VERY tired state (droopy eyes, nodding off) and placed so that she will not wake herself up. But she always does. We have hesitantly tried “crying it out” for a couple minutes even but I’m not for this with such a young baby. I don’t agree with it.

We don’t have any other sleeping options. We have a swing that we could swing her in that we could take her out of and place back in bassinet but that has proven not to work multiple times. We don’t have any other “safe” sleep option than the bassinet.

Measures we take to try and get her comfortable:

-noise machine—we play white noise or heartbeat setting. Often calms her down but that seems to be it

-swaddle up—swaddle that allows her arms to be in upright position near face. We tried regular blanket swaddles but her hand reflexes are SO strong that she twists out of even the tightest one in under 5 minutes. This one seems nice but still not helping with wanting held when sleeping

I just need some type of solution. It’s getting to the point that I am 100% sleep deprived. Each night/day I get maybe 2 full hours of sleep. It has me in tears constantly. I’m typing this post while nodding off every 10 seconds, eyes blurry and unable to focus. I will be sitting nursing her at 2 am and on nodding my head barely able to open my eyes, terrified that exhaustion will give in and I’ll fall asleep with her in my arms. How on earth do I avoid this with how she hates sleeping out of arms? Even now I will include a photo of her successfully staying asleep in my lap flat on her back but not able to do so in bassinet.

Please 😞 help. Even if it’s just someone who has experienced the same thing and I can relate to. I’m feeling very overwhelmed and defeated