Employment Status of Mother as the Barrier Factor to Breastfeed

摘要

Ministry of Health report in 2015, exclusive breastfeeding coverage in Indonesia by 55.7%. This coverage is still below the national target of 80%. The coverage of exclusive breastfeeding is also still low in Central Java Province, Indonesia, include Sukoharjo District. The purposeof this research was to analyze the relationship of implementation initiation of early breastfeeding and sociodemographic factors with the success of exclusive breastfeeding in babies aged 6–11 months in Baki, Sukoharjo. This type of research is observational with cross sectional approach.Sample of this research is mothers who have babies aged 6–11 months in Baki, Sukoharjo were 95 people, with proportional random sampling technique. The statistic test technique used Chi-square. The results showed are not relation among the the implementation initiation of early breastfeeding( p = 0.321) with exclusive breastfeeding. In sociodemographic factors, variabel of age ( p = 0.088), education ( p = 0.925), and parity ( p = 0.920) also showed no association, while variables of mother working status ( p = 0.049) indicated there was associationwith exclusive breastfeeding in babies age 6–11 months in the working area health centers Baki Sukoharjo.