Exclusive Breastfeeding on Poor Family in Osing Tribe (Positive Deviance); Qualitative Study at Kemiren Village, Subdistrict of Glagah, Regency of Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia

Abstract

The child caring constitutes the deeds conducted by family (mother, father, grandmother or other person) in giving food especially breastfeed. Breastfeed is the best food for baby and has the highest nutrition value compared to human made baby food or milk from animals like cow's milk. Exclusive breastfeeding is given to a newborn as a major food until 6 months of age. Many factors that determine the success of exclusive breastfeeding. On poor family social factor is one of the important factor. Osing tribe which is a native of Banyuwangi Regency, lives in Kemiren village where the village still maintains its cultural traditions. In 2013, it is known that exclusive breastfeeding in the Kemiren Village is the lowest among the other villages in the district Glagah. This is the reason why the writer is interested in studying further about the case of how among aforesaid poor families are still able to give Exclusive Breastfeed. This research applied the qualitative approach. Informants were selected purposively. Informants in this research were mothers having 6-12 month children and give exclusive breast fee on poor family.

The result of this research showed that the factors that influence positive deviance is the role of husband, in this case husband give emotional support to his wife through caring of his wife and children health, and a husband concern to his wife for exclusive breastfeeding; appreciation support was given by the entire informant by giving consent if the wife do exclusive breastfeeding; average of key informants provided instrumental support financially or gave some money to the wife to support exclusive breastfeeding.