THE CORRELATION BETWEEN EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING AND WEIGHT LOSS IN LACTATING WOMEN IN THE INDEPENDENT PRACTICE MIDWIFE YUSIDA IN 2020

Abstract

Exclusive breastfeeding for Palembang in 2018 by 76,5%. This achievement is still below the target of exclusive
breastfeeding in Indonesia is 80%. Exclusive breastfeeding is one way to lose weight on a lactating women because
the fat reserves in the body are used for the process of breast milk production. The purpose of this study is to
determine the effect of Exclusive breastfeeding on weight loss lactating women. The design of this research is
using the analytic method with the approach of cross-sectional. The population in this study were all women who
have children aged 6-7 months in the independent practice midwife Yusida 2020. The samples were taken by
purposive sampling which amounted to 62 people. The results showed that the majority of the sample experienced
a weight loss that is of 59.7% and most of the s do not give exclusive breastfeeding as much as 33,9%. In the
results of the bivariate analysis, there is a correlation between exclusive breastfeeding with weight loss with the
results of the p-value of 0.006. This result supports the world health organization's recommendation of Exclusive
breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life to reduce the risk of weight retention or addition of weight gain in
postpartum women. It has been known that exclusive breastfeeding is beneficial for infants and mothers, promote
breastfeeding as a strategy to promote weight loss is important, because the excess weight in women of
reproductive age is a public health problem.