Bottle Feeding and Crying!! Help

Maybe try walking and rocking bubs in your arm and gently introduce the bottle? From experience if they are upset they don't take the bottle well so its getting them calm enough to actually take it. If you are sitting with bubs maybe do eye contact, gentle talking and introduce the bottle??? Easier said than done and if bubs is hungry it makes it all the more harder.

Good luck. We had lots of dramas with DS2 where getting a full bottle into him was a drama but we kept trying different things and we got there in the end...he's now 3 and loves food!

Hi thanks for the tips so far I will have a go at these! Bubs is bottle fed only - and unfortunately has an ear infection and I am definately concerned that this isn't going to improve if my position is incorrect.

Unfortunately not under my midwife any more bubs is just over 3 months old. I have to say we are struggling with Plunket also I am going back to the doc tomorrow to see if the ear infection has settled. Hubby holds bub upright more than me (he has longer arms which I think helps) and she doesn't cry as much with him that is why I think it is the position causing pain, we are giving bubs Pamol twice a day at the moment as advised by the doc for the infection

This article has a photo of someone feeding a newborn in an upright position on the third page down - perhaps you could try holding her like that?

I used to sit DS on my left arm, which was resting against my body on an angle so the back of my hand was touching my right thigh (if that makes sense?) and DS's head was resting against the top of my left arm and shoulder. He wasn't quite as upright as in that photo but almost .... I was terrified of him developing an ear infection from being fed in a position that was too horizontal. He could sit unassisted at quite an early age as a result (then I worried he might turn into a bum-shuffler lol). Hope your wee girl gets better soon.