PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A Chester County mom has birthed a new business after having a hard time bottle-feeding one of her own babies, offering a cute solution to a serious problem many new moms face.
"When I had my son Blake, he was a breastfed baby and we had a really hard time with getting him to take a bottle," said Julianne Gardner, owner of Bottimals.
The first time Blake refused breast milk in a bottle, Gardner was about to get her first post-partum haircut.
"Just trying to feel like myself again," she said.
While she was in the salon chair, her husband called.
"My hair was soaking wet and he calls me. I can hear the baby screaming in the background and he said, 'You have to come home. He won't take the bottle,'" she recalled.
She soon realized bottle refusal was common, forc