Gambaran Bounding Attachment pada Ibu Menyusui di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Andongsari Kabupaten Jember

Abstract

The formation of bounding attachment was the formation of a bond of affection between mother and child which might be formed from birth. One of the formations of bounding attachment was through exclusive breastfeeding. However, the purpose and method of this study was to describe the bounding attachment of breastfeeding mothers in the working area of Andongsari Public Health Center, through a retrospective approach with an analytic descriptive design used a purposive sampling method. Thus, this study involved 61 respondents who were breastfeeding mothers. The research results obtained were breastfeeding mothers in the Andongsari Health Center work area showing good bounding attachments with a total of 57 respondents (93.4%) and as many as 4 respondents (6.6%) showing unfavorable bounding attachments. The conclusion of this study was that the description of bounding attachment to breastfeeding mothers in the Andongsari Health Center work area showed good results with good information from posyandu administration, sharing information with other mothers regarding child care and care. The implications that could be applied to this research were health promotion related to the upbringing and care of children, facilitating counseling related to child planning, supporting mothers in the lactation process, and increasing interaction between babies and mothers.