Combination of consumption of musa balbisiana colla and herbal mask of varian rice on breast against breast milk production of post partum mothers in Demak district

Abstract

Background

The process of giving breast milk or breastfeeding is the best way to provide ideal food for baby's growth and development. The provision of exclusive breast milk in reality for six months is not as simple as imagined. Many obstacles arise in an effort to provide exclusive breast milk for the first six months of a baby's life. Not all mothers want to breastfeed their babies for various reasons. For example, fear of being fat, busy, saggy breasts and so on. On the other hand, there are also mothers who want to breastfeed their babies but the mother's milk does not want to go out or the production is not smooth

Research methods

This type of research is True Experimental Design with the design of the Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design. The affordable population in this study was postpartum mothers who carried out exclusive breastfeeding in the working area of the puskesmas kebonagung regency demak in July-August 2018. A sample of 51 people.

Research result

The results showed that the combination of musa balbisiana colla consumption and rice variant herbal mask for breast was effective against the production of breast milk in postpartum mothers with indicators of infant weight, frequency of breastfeeding babies, frequency of infant urination, infant sleep duration

Conclusion

The results of this study can be seen that the intervention given is a combination of consumption of musa balbisiana colla and rice variant herbal mask for breast effective against breast milk production in postpartum mothers