Your baby needs to nurse for security, positive hormonal releases, bonding and company. (babyreference.com)
Various physiological stresses, such as anesthesia, myocardial infarction, and diabetic ketoacidosis, are known to promote counter-regulatory hormonal release, inducing a state of relative insulin resistance (23,24). (care.diabetesjournals.org)
Some have attributed the lack of maternal instincts found in some mothers to the lack of the hormonal release which comes as a result of not having this hormone released during labor. (babygaga.com)