PENGARUH PIJAT BAYI TERHADAP PENINGKATAN DURASI MENYUSU PADA BAYI USIA 0-3 BULAN RS. NURUL HASANAH 2023

Abstrak

Baby massage can be a choice of physical activity that functions to increase the duration and frequency of the baby's breastfeeding. Baby Massage is an art of health care and treatment that has been known since the beginning of humans in the world and has been practiced for centuries by traditional birth attendants. Babies quickly become hungry or want to eat because their digestion becomes smoother. Mother's milk (ASI) is the main nutritional intake for babies, especially babies 0-3 months.

Breast milk is produced as a result of the combined work of the hormones Oxytocin, Prolactin and the Let Down Reflex. So maternal psychological factors and baby factors are closely related to breast milk production. This research is an analytical research with the type of research used, namely Quasy experimental (quasi-experiment) which seeks to reveal the causal relationship between the independent variable (predictor) and the dependent variable (effect) within a certain time period. The population in this study were all babies 0-3 months at Nurul Hasanah Hospital. Sampling was taken using Purposive Sampling technique.

The research results showed that there was an influence between baby massage and the frequency of breastfeeding in babies with a P value (0.000) and there was an influence between baby massage and the duration of breastfeeding in babies (P value 0.000). It is hoped that midwives can continue to motivate mothers to do baby massage so that it will increase the frequency of breastfeeding for their babies and motivate them to continue providing exclusive breast milk to their babies.