The relationship between the frequency of breastfeeding counseling with the adequacy of breastfeeding to the newborn babies

Abstract

Objective

The aim of the research was to determine the relationship between the freuency of breastfeeding counseling with breastfeeding sufficiency of newborn babies of three days postpartum.

Methods

This research was quasi experimental design. There were 80 primipara divided into 4 groups, each group consist of 20 samples given counseling for one time to group 1, two times to group 2, three times to group 3, and four times to group 4, tested with Friedman, One-way ANOVA, and Kruskal–Wallis tests.

Results

The result indicated that there was no difference among the groups 1, 2, 3, and 4. However, there was a relationship between an increase intake of breastfeeding with the provision of counseling to the breastfeeding mothers on day 1, day 2, and day 3 and to all groups (p = 0.001).

Conclusion

This showed that the groups given the counseling with different frequency: one time, two times, three times, and four times did not have difference in increasing the sufficiency of breastfeeding although the assistance could give the adequacy of breastfeeding.