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Bottimals
Julianne stands holding her toddler son in her arms in front of a shelf of baby products in a Hallmark store

Julianne Gardner and her son see the Bottimals product available in Hallmark for the first time.

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A baby laying down drinking from a bottle with one of the Bottimals products attached to the bottle

Bottimals is a startup that creates bottle-loveys—stuffed animals that wrap around baby bottles and include a removable heart pad mothers can wear against their skin to absorb their scent. The patent-pending bottle-lovey is intended to help ease the transition from breast feeding to bottle feeding for infants.

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Julianne sits in front of classroom holding the Bottimals product, a child standing next to her looking at the product.

One of Julianne's first speaking opportunities was talking to her daughter's preschool class about inventing. More recently, she has shared her entrepreneurial journey as a panelist on a women entrepreneurs panel at the Great Valley LaunchBox powered by Penn State.

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