HUBUNGAN TINGKAT PENGETAHUAN IBU TENTANG NUTRISI SAAT MENYUSUI DENGAN STATUS GIZI BAYI UMUR 1-6 BULAN

Infant under 6 months-aged really need breastfeeding as source of nutritions for their optimal growth. A lot of mothers in Indonesia does not aware about exclusive breastfeeding programm because the less knowledge experienced by mothers about good nutritions during breast-feeding who has good nutrition can improve the quality and quantity of breastfeeding with the result that infant’s nutrition become good too. This research purposes to find the correlation between mother’s knowledge about breast-feed nutrition with 1-6 monthsaged infant nutrition status. This is a non-experimental research with a cross-sectional research to go that consists of 50 mothers and infants sample chosen technically by consecutive sampling. Mother’s sample will be given questioner to value knowledge about breast-feeding nutrition and infant’s sample to be considered to value infant nutrition status with anthropometry index of weight-for-age. Rank Spearman Correlation used to examine correlation between variables with 95% rate of trustwothiness. The result of this research is the value of p = 0.000 (p<0.05) and r = 0.755 positive that there are correlation between mother’s knowledge about breast-feed nutrition with 1-6 months-aged infant nutrition status in Puskesmas I Denpasar Barat. If it’s better for mother’s knowledge, better it does for infant nutrition status.