| dc.description.abstract | The period of 6-12 month-old babies is the critical period of growth and
development. It cannot be repeated as the golden period In this periol giving good
nutrition like breastfeetling exclusNely, appruptiate and adequate weaning food, and
mother's good knowledge are needed to detect, to intervene and to stimulate any
problems which occur in their babies'growth and development. There are 20% of
malnutrition ond 14.8% of lag of development at Tanltmg Morawa B Wllage.
T'he obiect*e of the research was to find out the idluence of the pattern in
breassbeding arul weaning food and also mother's lvwutledge on babies' growth and
development at Tanjung Morawa B Village, Tanjung Morawa Subdistrict, Deli
Serdang Regency, in 2016. The research used cross sectiorral design, the samples
were 100 6-12 month-old babies. The data were gathered by irrterviews, observation
and questionnaires and analyzed by using chi-square te\t and nultiPle logistic
regression analysis.
The result of the research showed that variables which had the Dtost dominant
influence on babies' growth was frequency of feeding veaning food (fr : 5,8j4),
while the variables which had the most dominant influence on babies' development
was mother's knowledge (fl:9,814).
It is recommended that, health care pro'viders collaborating withfomilies and
especially mother through counseling. Mother motivates herself to breasfeed
etclusively and increase her btowledge of babies' growth and development through
media such as books, magazines, and internet | en_US |
