OKETANI MASSAGES AND ROLLING BACK MASSAGE COMBINATION ON BREASTMILK VOLUME ON POSTPARTUM WOMEN

Abstract

Exclusive breastfeeding in the world is still low. Based on data from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in 2012 only 39% of infants under the age of 6 months were exclusively breastfed worldwide, due to complaints about lack of milk production. An effort to increase breast milk volume is by doing a combination of Oketani massage and back massage. This study aims to determine the effect of a combination of Oketani massage and back massage on the volume of breast milk in puerperal mothers in  Bukittinggi City. This research used a quasi-experimental research using one group pretest-posttest design with univariate and bivariate analysis. The study population was all postpartum mothers who were in PMB "Y" Bukittinggi City, sample were 14 postpartum mothers by using purposive sampling technique. Each respondent was treated with a combination of oketani massage and rolling back massage for 3 days. The results obtained by the average volume of breast milk before being given a combination of oketani massage and rolling back massage was 67.86 and the volume of breast milk after intervention was 103.57 with an average difference of 35.71. The data analysis test used is the paired T-test, the result p value = 0,000. With the results of this study, it is expected that the administration of oketani massage and rolling back massage can be made into recommendations and applied to postpartum mothers to increase the volume of breast milk.