Help: Newborn sucking air during bottle feeding

[Elly162]

I’m hoping someone might be able to help from experience.
My little one is 2 weeks old, he’s been getting more upset in recent days because he has lots of gas and wind. Over the recent days when he drinks from his bottles, he sucks air from the corners of his mouth with his angry sucking.
Does anyone know how we might try and prevent this?
We’re using Tommee Tippee Anti Colic bottles with slow flow teats, but the midwife said the teats on them are rubbish and to buy new bottles which I get but they weren’t cheap so if we bought more and doesn’t solve anything it would be a waste of money.
He’s not getting air from the bottle itself, just from the corners of his mouth, around the actual teat because of his strong sucking, which he doesn’t do all the time.

Thanks in advance! From a desperate new mum 😥

Could you just try some different teats first, rather than different bottles?

Sounds like he's a hungry baby and needs regular teats to get more milk.

The midwife gave advice about the teats being rubbish so I'd follow her advice and get others asap because sucking in air will be giving him a sore tummy.

Probably stating the obvious but you do tip the bottle right up, don't you, so the test is full of milk?

Sounds like you need variflow tests. We used avent.

You need to try different teats or maybe even different bottles. You also have to be sure the bottle is tipped back enough so the teat is full of milk during the feeding.

Are you pace feeding the bottles? Are you letting baby latch and control the flow rather than laying them back and pouring the bottle in? Are you sure it’s air flow and not something else like CMPA? Definitely don’t give baby fast flow teats, you want them to control the flow and have it as close to breastfeeding in pace as possible