In lactating mothers, a hormone helps to bring the uterus back to the original state.
(a) Which is this hormone?
(b) Note down another function of this hormone.

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(a) The hormone is oxytocin. It helps is parturition.
(b) Oxytocin also stimulates the ejection of milk from the mammary glands in lactating mothers. This is called milk ejection reflex.

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In lactating mothers, a hormone helps to bring the uterus back to the original state. (a) Which is this hormone?(b) Note down another function of this hormone.

(a) The hormone is oxytocin. It helps is parturition.(b) Oxytocin also stimulates the ejection of milk from the mammary glands in lactating mothers. This is called milk ejection reflex.

In lactating mothers, a hormone helps to bring the uterus back to the original state.
(a) Which is this hormone?
(b) Note down another function of this hormone.

(a) The hormone is oxytocin. It helps is parturition.
(b) Oxytocin also stimulates the ejection of milk from the mammary glands in lactating mothers. This is called milk ejection reflex.