When you do start to handle it, to help it get used to you and feel safe with you, try the "hand cave". This is where you hold the hatchling in your hands, one cupped over the other, making a nice dark warm cave. The hatchling feels nice and cafe and cosy, and learns to associate your smell with feeling this way.
I have done this with lots of snakes, and find it to be really effective. You may want to read a current thread in "herp help" called "Just got my first Childreni Hatchy, handling query" SLACkra talks about the hanc cave also, and has the very good suggestion of turning on the teev before you get the snake out.
My childreni girl, Shu, who I calmed down using the hand cave still gets "first contact" in her enclosure with a hook though.