5 month old refuses bottle

What worked for you? We have tried Tommie Tippie, MAM (worked for a little while in the first few weeks), Lansinoh - all with multiple different flow teats, anti colic and normal style bottles, etc. but our exclusively breastfed fed baby is still refusing bottle. They take 10ml at most and that’s it. The refusal started around 8 weeks and now at 5 months still no luck.

We have tried all the tricks - mum not home, hungry, not hungry, moving, up right, laying down, daytime, evening, etc. nothing seems to work.
Trying to figure out if we should keep buying different bottles or just give up. I’ve heard some mums use open cups but we mainly need the bottle for the before bed feed in the evening and that seems to not be ideal with a tired baby.

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