Abstract: A bottle holder for a vehicle safety seat having a restraining device for releasably retaining an infant in a seated position comprises a substantially planar, soft, resilient, flexible pad and means for releasably securing the pad to the restraining device in front of a seated infant. The pad has a chest shielding portion for covering the frontal profile of the infant's chest. A pair of laterally spaced apart upwardly projecting portions of the pad define an upwardly open bottle receiving yoke for cradlingly supporting and frictionally retaining a nursing bottle. A design imprinted on the frontal surface of the bottle holder comprises a fanciful animal figure having ears defined by the upwardly projecting portions.