Fussy bottle feeder

Does anyone else have a fussy bottle feeder. I b/f for the first 3 months before I had to move on to formula and in the last couple of weeks I found my baby would become fussy at the breast in the evenings. Our GP thought it was colicky behaviour rather than reflux although I'm not convinced. He is fussy with the bottle too and it seems to be when he is tierd sometimes during the day but more often in the evenings. To deal with this we have getting up and walking while holding him as starting a feed works, and sometimes rocking and shusshing when we need to. Is this common? Does anyone else have a fussy feeder like this. My baby is 5 months now and is starting to get heavier to hold with one arm while feeding. It also makes it hard for other people to feed him if they are babysitting.

I had this with my daughter - she was a nightmare to feed. I gave up breastfeeding at 4 months becuase I thought the move to the bottle might be better - but she was the same. One thing I learnt was not to stress about it - she used to wind me up and then I would get upset and it would be worse. End the end I started giving her evening bottle as a dreamfeed, as if I got her up after about 2hrs asleep she would drink it straight down and then stay asleep.   But this only worked because sh would sleep whether she had the bottle or not.

Worst bit was she never grew out of it... still doesn't drink alot of milk and struggles to drink an evening bottle at all

I had a fussy feeder too and had to almost rock her to sleep to get to her start drinking. It ended up being an intolerance to the formula along with silent reflux. Once we had the right formula it was a lot better.

Cooper can be quite fussy too. Yesterday between 6.30am and 5pm he'd only had 230mls to drink. Then finally he took another bottle, kept screaming everytime I put a bottle near him. I think he's got reflux now too. I also think he was constipated yesterday so not sure if that also made him fussy.   

Sympathies to you, my son can be a right pain to feed from his bottle and I know how upsetting and frustrating it can be.

I found if I was calm it was easier (much easier said that done!) and I also found distracting him works wonders. He now has a toy/remote/another bottle/anything to play with while feeding.

He also will often only feed lying flat on the floor, which is odd given he's a reflux baby, but you do what works!

Great chick
I was just gonna say Jake was fussy but it was down to reflux.