This is the hormone that causes the uterus to shrink and return to its normal size. This hormone also causes a mother to feel relaxed. Closeness Mothers who have bottle-fed one child and then nurse another baby say they feel especially dose to babies they have nursed. If you bottle-feed, try to give your baby just as much close contact as you would if you were nursing. Warm milk and close body contact should come with either type of feeding.
Nursing also triggers release of hormones which increase feelings of closeness to the baby.
Milk Safety Human milk has no disease-causing germs and requires no sterilization. In bottle-feeding, special care must be taken in preparing the formula. The utensils, bottles, and nipples must be very clean or sterile. After the formula is mixed, it must be kept refrigerated. Any unused formula should be thrown away, not saved for another day.