CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Sunday is Mother’s Day, and some may be celebrating for the first time.

New motherhood often means learning to breastfeed. A Charlotte-based company is helping mothers and families with an innovative bottle design. 

If you’re a person who breastfeeds and struggles with this, you’re not alone. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 60% of mothers don’t nurse for as long as they plan to.

The CDC says a lot of factors can impact those who nurse, such as issues with lactation, unsupportive work policies, lack of family support and more.

Mary Laird Garrison, who is a mom of three, nursed her kids.

She had trouble when trying to get her youngest, Lucy, to take a bottle.

“She would just like, chew on it and then she would just like, spit the milk out,” she said.

For other moms, she says they can have trouble with nursing in general.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends infants be exclusively breastfed for six months.

The CDC says while 75% of moms start out nursing, only 13% of babies are exclusively breastfed at the end of six months.

“Everybody’s body is really different. Everybody’s baby's really different,” Garrison said. "Some babies have a harder time nursing when they are first born. Some women have medical issues that make it harder to nurse.”

"I think as a mom, when you have a newborn, you're stressed out, you're not getting a lot of sleep, you're not eating well, you are not drinking enough water. All those things really affect nursing,” she added.

Garrison turned to a Charlotte-based company, called mōmi, for help when trying to transition Lucy to a bottle.

“I tried 12 different bottles. Like, I just was trying anything. Honestly, I was pretty desperate just to, like, have a little bit of independence,” she said.

A mōmi spokesperson says while regular bottles don’t stop milk flow when compressed, mōmi bottles are precision engineered with a compression shut-off milk duct that enables the baby to regulate milk flow.

"So we've designed this to mimic exactly how mom works, so that baby doesn't have to re-learn how to drink from a bottle,” said Kristen Fields, mōmi vice president of marketing.

Garrison says while nursing can be challenging, parents shouldn’t be afraid to ask for help.

"There's this like, mom shame thing that goes on where people think that they, if they're doing something a different way, that it's not OK,” she said. “And the reality is, is that you are the only person that God’s really given your children to take care of them."