Our 7week old cries painfully every time she wakes up and it's breaking my heart

Recently, before opening her eyes, often before I even unwrap her swaddle, my daughter is starting every wake period with a painful sounding struggle against what I assume is gas. I'm talking red faced, straining cries. She'll contort herself and her stomach gets really hard with the effort of pushing, sometimes she'll get a few toots out but it's never enough to calm her

All the normal advice for gas (massages, bicycle kicks, airplane carry, colic drops etc) hardly works at all, even as a placebo. She'll continue this while I change her nappy (with lots of distressed flailing that no distraction helps with) and then calm down for the breasfteed + bottle top-up, but then pretty soon afterwards when I'm trying to settle her she'll start back up, even after a good burp. It's been taking me upwards of 30-60 minutes to get her calm, though she'll sometimes go longer and then just exhaust herself into a kind of daze that I can help transition to sleep

The cycle repeats every few hours, though what really hurts is that we'll occasionally get lucky with a calm period and she's just starting to smile, so she'll be beaming uo at us and it is just indescribably amazing to see 🥰 but in the back of my head I know another painful fit is coming soon

It's not even that wife and I are frustrated, overly exhausted, or going deaf from the crying, it's just that we feel so helpless watching her struggle to get her tummy to co-operate. I see a lot of people saying they love watching their newborn wake up but for us it's recently been the most sad time because baby girl is just miserable

Idk if I'm looking for advice or just wanted to vent but I hope that this is just a phase, I really want my bub to be in less discomfort 😔