One of the numerous concerns facing a new mother is whether to feed her new infant from the breast or the bottle. When the tradition of breastfeeding in America was lost throughout the last century, bottle-feeding became the norm. Today quite a few women are choosing to breastfeed, but with busy and demanding lifestyles they typically discover it necessary for their babies to accept a bottle (hopefully filled with breast milk). Occasionally a breastfed baby balks at accepting an artificial nipple for feeding. The following suggestions may aid when offering a bottle to a resisting baby. However, none of these are necessarily an absolute ‘fix’. Encouraging your breastfed baby to accept a bottle can be a process that might need your practice and patience for a number of weeks.