Baby refusing any and all bottles - please help!

[Tgilaura]

My baby is 6 and a half months and I’m looking to go back to work at the start of April.
She’s been breast fed since birth and has never taken a bottle, but that hasn’t been much of a problem because I ve always been here to feed! Obviously this isn’t going to be the case soon.

I’m desperate to get her into a bottle so I don’t have be worried she’s starving herself when I go back to work.
I have tried:
Expressed milk
Formula (two different types)
Water
She won’t drink any of them.

I have tried multiple different bottles and sippy cups. She just screams like a lunatic when I try to give them to her.

Today I went to work for a KIT day and thought it was a good opportunity to try and see if she will take them when I m not around. She refused totally and was hysterical. She went 6 hours in total without any fluids and the health visitor gave me a gentle telling off because it’s too long.

Please please advise.

I just wanted to update this because I ve had a bit of a breakthrough, and I hate it when I search for threads and there’s no update of what happened!

So I decided I couldn’t cold Turkey it because I d find it very distressing seeing the baby so upset.
I got up early in the morning and expressed 4 ounces of milk. Then throughout the day I warmed up just an ounce at a time in one chosen bottle and I offered it to her. I made it into a game, like tapping it on her nose and then taking it away so she could see I wasn’t going to force it.
As soon as she got upset I took it away and just offered her the breast. Then with the final bottle of the day she took it! No crying, no screaming, just drank it straight down.
Did the same thing this morning and she took the first offer of the bottle no problem.
Still a long way to go as I d like to get her on to formula; but I m going to see if she will regularly accept the bottle first. 😊

That's a good update op. By the time she's 9 months she will probably comfortably use a cup too and be eating 3 meals so try not to worry