Why new moms must cover the bottle while pumping breast milk?

Motherhood is a life-altering experience. For a new mother, it can bring a lot of trepidation along with biological changes.

The lack of experience can cause stress, which can make the process of healing and bonding with the baby challenging.

If you are a new mother who intends to breastfeed, know that stress can affect the quantity and quality of milk that your body produces.

According to actor Neha Dhupia's initiative 'Freedom To Feed', pumping of breast milk "can be just as difficult as breastfeeding -- especially when you are constantly keeping an eye on the bottle to see how it's going".

This is why it is advised that new mothers cover their bottles while they pump milk, so that they can "divert [their] focus from the bottle and let [their] body do its thing".

In order to do that, mothers can cover the bottles with baby socks while they pump milk. "Slip it onto your bottle, start pumping and relax as best as you can," it states.