<![CDATA[Complementary food for breast milk is food that is given to babies from the age of 6-24 months to meet energy and other nutritional needs that cannot be fulfilled by breast milk. However, many parents provide complementary food for breast milk to their babies before the age of 6 months. This is due to lack of knowledge of family or parents. This study aims to determine the relationship between family knowledge about complementary foods with breastfeeding early breastfeeding complementary foods at the Lamongan Health Center. This research uses analytic design type of cross sectional design. The population is the whole family of mothers who have babies aged 0-6 months as many as 30 respondents. Sample of 28 people using simple random sampling technique. The results showed that the majority of respondents who had insufficient knowledge of their babies received complementary breastfeeding early, namely 10 (71.4%) and a small proportion of respondents who had good knowledge of their babies did not get complementary breastfeeding early, namely 1 (16.7%) respondent. The results of data analysis obtained p = 0.044 (p <0.05). The conclusion of the research is that there is a relationship between family knowledge about complementary foods with breast milk and early supplementary feeding. It is recommended that the family should always be involved in providing care to nursing mothers so that mothers understand the importance of exclusive breastfeeding and the adverse effects caused by providing supplementary breastfeeding food that is too early.]]>
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