Abstract

Background: Exclusive breastfeeding is an effort to reduce infant mortality in Indonesia. The lack of production of mother's milk will result in the process of breastfeeding being disrupted so that it is one of the factors that the mother does not give breast milk exclusively. According to Data Survey Lampung Province Demographic and Health,data from obtained 17.672 people from 21,347 post-partum mothers (from the Demographic Survey of Lampung, 2013)postpartum mothers who had breast milk damming.

Methods: This research method uses a quasi-experimental design. This study compared groups that were treated and the control group. Treatment group 1 was treated with breast care using butter, group 2 breast care using olive oil, group 3 breast care using coconut oil and a control group without treatment using baby oil. The research sample of respondents was 100. Data collection was carried out by breast care for four days, two times per day, then assessed two times on the fourth and fifth day. Data were processed and analyzed by independent T-test. 

Result: The results of the assessment of complaints and damages to breast milk after treatment were as follows: butter (1.40), olive oil (1.20), coconut oil (1.48) and baby oil (4.44). Statistical results of the ingredients of butter and baby oil, olive oil and baby oil, as well as coconut oil and baby oil, obtained p-value = 0.001, meaning that it can be concluded that there are differences in the results of assessment of complaints and damaging signs of breast milk among the three ingredients breast care used . The results of this study prove that baby oil is not the only ingredient for breast care but can also use olive oil, butter, coconut oil. Further analysis found that the common complaint of damaging the lowest milk was found in breast care with olive oil, followed by butter, coconut oil, and baby oil.

Conclusion: From these results, health service providers can provide booklets and health workers should be able to socialize the steps and alternatives for materials breast care by including instructions for breast care.

Keyword: Lactation, breastfeeding, mother’s milk, breast care.