Baby crying during bottle feeds

My baby is 5 weeks old and is crying, uncomfortable during feeds. We switched to a comfort formula which hasn’t made any improvement. Never sick but does have silent reflux symptoms

Does anyone have thoughts on what we could do next or if experienced similar ?

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Speak to GP and try Gaviscon

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Make sure you’re pace feeding tho, and not using a teat that’s too fast. What bottles are you using?

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Crying during feeds can be cuz of a few different reasons .

Presuming you’re burping baby frequently? Are you sure it’s not trapped wind or the teat being to slow/fast ?

If none or that and comfort formula hasn’t made any difference id go to ur GP and try gaviscon because it could be reflux.

My boy has silent reflux (very happy baby but was forcefully sick upto an hour after a feed ) he tried gaviscon n it didnt really help so we tried alternating feeds between gaviscon and carobel and thats worked for us but its all trial and error to if it is reflux or cmpa or something else and what works to help

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i gave infocal before feeds it was a life saver

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