Sorume Health Sciences Journal
Vol 1, No 2 (2020): Sorume Health Sciences Journal

The Impact of Sweet Potato Leaves Stew on Breast Milk Production in Postpartum Mothers at Bara-Barayya Public Health Center in Makassar

Sutrani Syarif (Universitas Megarezky)
Nurasmi Nurasmi (Universitas Megarezky)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Dec 2020

Abstract

Breast milk is the most complete, safe, hygienic, and cheap nutritional food for babies. This research aimed to determine the impact of sweet potato (Ipomea Batatas) leaves stew towards breast milk production in postpartum mothers. The benefit of this research for postpartum mothers is to facilitate breastfeeding with herbal plants that are easily accessible. This type of research was a Quasi-experiment with a non-equivalent control group design. The number sample was 30 respondents. The sampling technique was the purposive sampling technique. Giving sweet potato leaves stew to postpartum mothers for seven days and measuring breast milk before and after providing the stew for seven days. The analysis used Independent T-test. The results showed an effect of giving sweet potato (Ipomea Batatas) leaves stew towards breast milk production in postpartum mothers with a value (sig 2-tailed = 0.000).

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Journal Info

Abbrev

shsj

Publisher

Subject

Health Professions Medicine & Pharmacology Nursing Public Health

Description

SORUME Health Sciences Journal (Sorume HSJ) is a peer-reviewed, and open access online journal that aims to promote nursing, midwifery, and public health practice field through publishing the last evidence-based, peer-reviewed basic and clinical researches and provides an international platform for ...