A study done on laboratory monkeys has revealed that a hormone that is released when someone is under physical or emotional stress is present in breast milk.

Female babies fed on breast milk with relatively high concentrations of cortisol showed behavioural changes, such as irritability, fear, anger and discomfort, which were not shown in sons fed on breast milk with similar concentrations of the hormone, Katie Hinde, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said.
The findings lend further support to the idea that "breast is best" and that formula milk does not provide the same nutritional benefits as breast milk.
However, when formula milk is unavoidable, the results also suggest that its make-up might be altered depending on whether the baby is a boy or a girl, Dr Hinde said.
She told the American Association for the Advancement of Science that these studies are showing that mother's milk affects behaviour and there seems to be differences in that effect for sons and daughters.
Source-ANI