THE INFLUENCE OF GRANDMOTHERS INVOLVEMENT IN THE SUCCESS OF BREASTFEEDING
Deny Eka Widyastuti (a*), Megayana Yessy Maretta (b), Enny Fitriahadi (c)
(a) Master of Midwifery Student, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universitas Aisyiyah Yogyakarta
Midwifery Program, STIKes Kusuma Husada Surakarta
*denkawidyastuti88[at]gmail.com
(b) Midwifery Program, STIKes Kusuma Husada Surakarta
(c) Midwifery Program, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universitas Aisyiyah Yogyakarta
Abstract
Background: The first 1000 days of life is a very important time for the development of a childs brain. Providing good nutrition and maximum stimulation will be able to help the childs maximum development. UNICEF and WHO recommend exclusive breastfeeding for infants carried out until the baby is 6 months old, but until now the achievement rate for breastfeeding is still low. In Indonesia the achievement of exclusive breastfeeding in 2018 only reached 65.16%. The low achievement of breastfeeding is influenced by many factors of mothers knowledge, mothers occupation, the provision of appropriate information and family support. The family here is not only husband or partner but also grandmother both biological mother of the mother and mother-in-law. Many studies have suggested that grandmothers have a considerable influence on the success of breastfeeding. Objective: to review some of the literature on the effect of a grandmothers involvement in the success of breastfeeding. Method: systematic literature review of 3 databases namely PubMed, Science Direct and ProQuest. The articles used are from 2010-2019, with a total number of articles of 2973 articles. Results: 14 articles were selected that were in accordance with the specified cliteria. The influence of grandmothers involvement in the success of breastfeeding is divided into 4 topics, namely: (1) grandmothers knowledge, (2) living with grandmother, (3) health education involving grandmother, (4) grandmothers support. Grandmothers correct knowledge of breast milk increases optimal breastfeeding, giving colostrum, the right time in feeding replacement milk. Grandchild who have a high frequency of contact with grandmothers show that it is associated with low rates of breastfeeding, and short feeding times. Providing health education to mothers by involving grandmothers who live in the same house as mothers shows a low rate of breastfeeding replacement. Providing support by grandmothers is directly proportional to support from ethnic groups, the existence of support from grandmothers increases the rate of breastfeeding to infants. Conclusion: Grandmothers involvement greatly influences the success of breastfeeding to mothers, it is necessary to consider starting to involve grandmothers in providing health education to mothers so that breastfeeding success can be achieved.
Keywords: Grandmother, Breastfeeding, infant feeding, Maternal Grandmother, Paternal Grandmother
Topic: MATERNAL, NEONATAL, AND CHILD HEALTH