Low understanding of Breastfeeding?

Jakarta, Health Blog - The level of exclusive breast-feeding in Indonesia is still low. This condition occurs in all regions and economic groups of society. Lack of knowledge about the benefits of breast milk and formula milk onslaught of information makes the future of many children in Indonesia were sacrificed.


Chairman of the Indonesian Lactation Center Utami Roesli when contacted from Jakarta, Tuesday (1/5), said that breastfeeding mothers can actually reduce the risk of suffering from various diseases, ranging from breast cancer, uterine cancer, ovarian cancer, arthritis, bone loss, to diabetes.
Breastfeeding right consists of several stages, starting from early initiation of breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding until the baby is 6 months old, the provision of complementary foods after 6-month-old infants who made his own, and breast-feeding until the baby is 2 years old.
"Many mothers do not breast feed properly because it did not know the benefits," he said.
Basic Health Research 2010 calls, only 15.3 percent of infants aged less than 6 months are exclusively breastfed. The higher the family's economic condition, the lower the rate of exclusive breastfeeding.The highest exclusive breastfeeding rate in the poorest families are at 34.7 percent.
The condition is alarming because formula milk prices are not cheap, not comparable with the family income. To get around, many poor families to reduce the dose of infant formula milk is more watery.
This means the baby gets less nutrients it needs. Dose reduction of infant formula for the future a long way baby. This condition will not occur if exclusive breastfeeding going well.
Nutritionists at the District Health Office Jombang, East Java, Zainal Arifin, adding, low exclusive breastfeeding in all regions and economic groups occurs as more mothers have to work. Working mothers are not only happening in the upper middle class, but also the lower middle.
The number of mothers who must work under the intermediate seen in the industrial area around Jakarta. Any change of hours of work, many mothers leave or return to work.
The condition also occurs a small town that has many industries, such as Jombang. Companies that employ many women include cigarette and shoe companies.
This means fewer and fewer mothers can give their babies exclusively breastfed for six months. Moreover according to the rules, maternity leave is only granted a maximum of three months.
Zainal reminder of the importance of each enterprise or workplace to provide breast milk or cottage where mothers can breastfeed in order to keep feeding or milking cows and storing in the refrigerator to maintain milk quality.
Required
Although the obligation to provide nursing places stipulated in Government Regulation No. 33 of 2012 on Exclusive Breastfeeding, the implementation of the PP in Jombang boosted with regents rules. Companies that do not provide nursing may be subject to sanctions.
Provision of nursing obligations is applied to all companies, irrespective of the number of women workers.
According to Zainal, currently there are only 10 companies that have more women in the workforce that provides a place to breastfeed.There are many companies that do not provide these facilities.
Utami added, low exclusive breastfeeding abetted by health workers who do not understand the importance of breastfeeding. As a result, they would encourage the provision of infant formula or complementary foods to infants instant.
"There are few cultural factors that inhibit breastfeeding correctly, but the most intense is the information about formula milk," said Utami.
In addition, the success of breastfeeding is also determined the role of husband. When the mother calm and think positive, it will trigger the hormone oxytocin that makes a lot of mothers breast milk produced. Conversely, if the mother can not calm down, either due to too many thoughts at home and work pressures, the amount of milk decreased.
Breastfeeding also reduces the stress and maternal depression.From the study, mothers who breastfeed correctly, 4.8 times less likely to abandon or to do violence to their children. Breastfeeding mothers can actually reduce the risk of suffering from various diseases. (MZW)
source: kompas.com

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