PENGARUH KONSELING LAKTASI PADA IBU HAMIL TRIMESTER III TERHADAP PEMBERIAN PRELAKTAL BAYI BARU LAHIR

Abstract

ABSTRACT Background: Exclusive breastfeeding’s rate in Indonesia is still low. One of the causes of this failure is the prelacteal feeding in infants’ early life. Prelacteal feeding can cause the infants reluctance to suckle their mothers’ breasts, diarrhea, allergy, ear infections and respiratory disorders in infants. One of the efforts to prevent prelacteal feeding is providing lactation counselingto women in the third trimester of pregnancy. Objective: To assess the impact of lactation counseling to women in the third trimester of pregnancy toward prelacteal feeding to newborn infants. Method: This research design usedrandomized controlled trial (RCT) which is divided into treatment group (pregnant women class and individual lactation counseling) n=33 and control group (pregnant women class only) n=34. The subjects are woman in the third trimester of pregnancy in the work area of Puskesmas Sokaraja 1, Banyumas. The sampling technique is simple random sampling. Chi square, relative risk (RR) and logistic regression analysis is used for statistical analysis. Result and Discussion: Proportion mothers who did not give prelacteal feeding wassignificantly higher in intervention group than in control group, 69% vs 30% with RR = 1.69 (95% CI: 1.06 to 2.68) p = 0.01. Conclusion: Mothers who received counseling lactation in the third trimester of pregnancy had a 1.69 times greater chance to not give prelacteal than mothers who did not receive counseling lactation. Keywords: