Teat size MAM bottles for EBF baby

I’m wanting to occasionally express for my EBF for a couple of events I have coming up. I have a size 0 teat as I read it’s most like the breast as they have to work to get the milk out. Is this ok or do I need a size up? Also how many OZ is it worth offering for a feed replacement? He’s 5 month old for reference.

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I personally found that my baby doesn’t like to work for it at all 😂 I dunno if my flow from my breasts is maybe quite fast so she downed have to work that hard for it. I started introducing a bottle at 4 weeks which was a slog, then around 8 weeks she was fine with them then at 12 weeks she completely rejected them and would scream if a bottle was brought anywhere near her. It took weeks and weeks of trying all sorts of bottles and teats and the only teat that has worked is a Mam training teat but we have stabbed a hole in it 😂 the shape is quite different to the regular teats and I also think she just wanted something more free flowing but the normal sippy cups the plastic was too hard on her gums. I’ve tried going back to a size 3 teat but she just messes about with it and gags a lot!

My baby doesn’t often drink more than 2oz at a time out of a bottle. We have started weaning with some porridge or baby rice mixed with breast milk and we offer her a bottle then after she’s ate

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