Practice Of Early Breastfeeding Initiation On Primigravida With A Cultural Perspective: A Systematic Review

One of the health aspects in the development process is the development of human resource potential (HR). What plays a role in this potential of human resources is good nutritional status from an early age. In addition to these factors, the quality of human resource formation is also influenced by the environment that shapes human character. namely the socio-cultural environment (Soekirman, 2005). One of the cultural interactions that affect nutritional status as a condition for the formation of quality human resources is the practice of breastfeeding and the practice of early breastfeeding initiation (IMD). There have been many previous studies that have written that there are still many mothers who do not practice IMD, where one of the reasons mentioned is the belief that the first milk that comes out is dirty and unhealthy, so it is not suitable to be given to babies (Roesli, 2008). The purpose of this literature study is to determine the influence of culture in the practice of early breastfeeding initiation. The articles used in the literature review were obtained through databases of international journal providers such as Proquest, Google Scholar and Science Direct. The journal was taken from 2019 to 2021. Researchers used keywords, namely transcultural nursing, breastfeeding (according to MESH/Medical Subject Heading) and 20 articles were analyzed using PRISMA diagrams. The analysis found that most mothers did not practice early breastfeeding because of certain beliefs about early breastfeeding, such as early breastfeeding was not as good as exclusive breastfeeding, dirty early breast milk, unhealthy early breastfeeding given to babies and the habit of mothers who immediately gave additional food immediately. after the baby is born.