Health Education on Breastfeeding Preparation in Pregnant Mothers and Families

Abstract

How to feed babies is to exclusively breastfeeding from birth until the baby is six months old and continue breastfeeding the child until the age of twenty-four months. The success of breastfeeding also needs to be prepared early starting from antenatal, such as mothers are prepared physically and psychologically, provide support, and various counseling about breastfeeding. The purpose of this activity is to be able to increase the knowledge of pregnant women about giving exclusive breastfeeding. The implementation method is to provide helath education on breastfeeding in pregnant womens and families of 15 pregnant womens at A'isyiyah General Hospital, Ponorogo. The implementation of the activity consists of several stages, including the stage before providing education by taking pre-test data and the next stage is providing education about preparing for breastfeeding to pregnant womens filling out a post-test questionnaire to find out whether there is an impact on the knowledge of pregnant women after being given education. The results of the activity explain that some of the knowledge possessed by pregnant women who are the objects of this activity when before being given education, namely most of them have good knowledge. After being given education, almost all pregnant women, namely by experiencing an increase in the value of their level of knowledge. This shows that providing education in this activity can increase the knowledge of pregnant womens about breastfeeding.