We've put distance between mothers and babies
Our society has thought up a dozen ingenious ways to put distance between mothers and their babies. It invented anesthetized childbirth, so a mother misses the dramatic evidence of having carried and borne her baby herself.
Don't worry if, for any reason, you didn't have this earliest contact with your baby. This attachment and bonding process will happen as soon as physical contact with the baby begins.
Breast feeding should be encouraged, especially by nurses and doctors, and relatives.
Bottle proping should be avoided - except when there's no choice, as when a mother of twins has no help and has no prop for one baby, at least, at each feeding.