Newborn unhappy at feeds

[Cole93]

Hello!
I’m a new mum…and I feel like I’m failing everyday. I have a 6 week old baby girl, soon to be 7 weeks, and I absolutely dread feeding her…we had an upsetting breastfeeding journey and opted for formula which helped one problem, but a host of new problems arose. It was decided with my health visitor that she has colic and so we bought new bottles and started her on infacol, and we changed her position- she lies down on her left side, kind of like if she were breast feeding. Now…during the night she takes her bottle great, but during the day, it can be awful, in general, she’ll start feeding fine, maybe take 1oz, and then starts crying. So we try burping her and that sometimes works, but if we try to put her back down to feed, she just screams again. I’ve tried sitting her up right, and I’ve had times she’s been lovely and calm and the minute the bottle is presented, she screams her head off. I know my own anxiety will be impacting her, but I just find the experience really upsetting and I just don’t know what to do.
if anyone has any tips or advice, I’d be so grateful!

Have you tried looking at what teat size youre using? Some babies like the milk quicker/slower so id suggest changing to see if it helps. You're doing amazingly it's an exhausting time x

My daughter was like this only with breastfeeding during the day she fed for seconds at a time but feed okish overnight.
It turned out she had severe silent reflux and multiple food allergies. Once we had both under control this was the first sign I had eaten something she was reacting too.

She screamed at the sight of my boobs as if I was trying to poison her. Feeding was causing her pain but she also knew she needed milk it was a torturous cycle of her screaming having two sucks and then screaming again. She went down to only breastfeeding for a total of 2-3 minutes during the day time.

I was going to suggest CMPA.

It would fit with the reflux type symptoms and the bottle aversion. Poor little thing had worked out already that milk equals pain.

Have a read of this from Allergy UK OP

Thank you for your advice guys!
so we tried a change in teat…but it turned out to be too fast a flow which caused upset, but because of your comment Superscientist, we spoke with our GP and yup…she’s got silent reflux! We’re now on Gaviscon and she is a lot happier! It’s absolutely crazy how much it has changed for her, and me! My mental health was going down the loo!
I hope your wee one is doing well 💕