Breast fed baby won't take bottle

[LilyJessie]

Hello!

Just that really. She is 6 weeks on Saturday, and thriving on the boob, and I intend to breastfeed for at least 6 months.
However... we I have been trying to introduce a bottle (expressed milk) since week 4 (following advice) and she gets so upset. She has taken some of the milk (so I know she can) but she hates it and gets herself in such a state.
I wondered if people had any advice?

I have tried leaving the room, I have tried boob and bottle and boob again, I have tried freshly expressed milk, cold milk. I haven't tried a different bottle yet, and currently using mam one (anti colic).

I would love her to take a bottle incase I want to go out for a couple hours/ the gym/ my partner to have the chance to feed too as it's a lovely experience....

Wondering if anyone has any advice?

I’m sorry I have no advice. But you’re doing fantastic 💐❤️

I had this - wanted to get back to work after 3 months so she had to learn to bottle feed. We tried all sorts of different bottles/teat styles (this was years ago, so I am sure there is far more choice now). The one she'd accept finally had very soft wide teats rather like these https://images.philips.com/is/image/philipsconsumer/72c655596aa4487d8180aca90028da81?wid=700&hei=700&$pnglarge$ and you put the milk in disposable plastic bags that collapsed as baby drank, so I suppose they never caused airlocks stopping the milk flow. It was so long ago I can't remember the make. I never had any luck expressing milk so she had formula at the minders and breast at home. However she'd never take the bottle at the beginning if I was around, babies can smell their mum 😁. I had to be right out of the room.

I think it's quite common for breast fed babies. My eldest was exclusively breast fed and wouldn't take a bottle when I tried to introduce her to expressed milk at 8 weeks when I was due to go back to work 4 weeks later (back in the mists of time when I only got 12 weeks paid mat leave in 1994). With my second i made a point of expressing every day and my then H fed her the bottle every evening while I made dinner and spent time with our eldest.