My daughter does that also, what I do is feed her, give her bath, give her a massage with calming lavender lotion and swaddle her so she doesn't jar herself awake and I put her in her swing, her swing has a light on top that plays music and nature sounds and that helps ALOT

He's probably just super tired. You can swaddle him so he doesn't move around and wake himself up. Also play a lullaby or some white noise that should help too

He's been up since about 3. he's been really fussy since like 5. I can get him to calm down by feeding him, but he's been eating with like 5 minute breaks for the past couple of hours because that's the only way to get him to stop crying. and any time I'd put him on the crib after he falls asleep from eating he wakes up 2 minutes later crying like crazy and then I have to feed him again. so now I said duck it and just decided to lay on the couch with him asleep on me. @mrsstewart

how long has he been up?