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Abstract Objective: The aim of the research was to determine the relationship between the freuency of breastfeeding counseling with breastfeeding suficiency 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 counselling 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 counselling 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 counselling 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.