THE INFLUENCE OF COUNSELING TO THE MOTHER’S KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE GIVING SUPPORTED FOOD OF BREAST FEEDING BY BABY LED WEANING (BLW) METHODE FOR THE BABY IN AGES 6 –12 MONTH OLD

Abstract

The less nutrition baby was caused by the uncorect in giving supportedfood of breast feeding. Ifthe need of nutrition didn’t fullfill, the baby nutrition disturbance will be occurwhich theconsequence of it will increase in the future. The purpose of the reseach was to find out the influence of counseling to the mother’s knowledge about the giving supported food of breast feeding by BLW methode for the baby in ages 6 – 12 month old At Posyandu Kenanga Semanding Rural Village Sumber Mulyo Village Jogoroto Sub District. This was exsperimental research design by one group pre-post test design approach. In this research the population was all the mother who had baby in ages 6 – 12 month old at PosyanduKenangaSemanding Rural Village SumberMulyo Village Jogoroto Sub District as 127 people by the sample of 32 people. The sample was taken by simple random sampling and wilcoxon test was used as statistic test. The result of research can be concluded that almost half of the respondents got knowledge about the giving supported food of breast feeding by BLW methode before they gotcounceling was less as 12 person (37%). Most of respondents got knowledge about the giving supported food of breast feeding by BLW methodeafter they got counceling was better as 13 person(41%). The Wilcoxon test in the significant level α = 0,05 got that ρ < α or0,000< 0,05 which meant there were increasing of mother’s knowledge before and after counceling about the giving supported food of breast feeding byBLW method. The conclussion, there were increasing of mother’s knowledge before and after counceling aboutthe giving supported food of breast feeding by BLW methode. The result of research was expected to the respondent be able to increase their knowledge concerning with the giving supported food of breast feeding by BLW methode by accessing information about the giving supported food of breast feeding by BLW methode, through the counseling ativities.