Praktek Penyapihan Dini Serta Hubungannya dengan Keadaan Sosial Ekonomi dan Wilayah Tempat Tinggal

The most dominant factor influences the infant health is breast milk. Mothers who are no longer breastfed infants 0-6 months old are said practice an early weaning patterns. Early weaning patterns in which breastfeeding is replaced with complementary foods tend to lead tomalnourishedchildren.Studying the early weaning practice of infants 0-6 months old in correlation to socioeconomic and geographical conditions. Samples were households with infants 0-6 months old in 33 provinces in Indonesia available in Riskesdas 2013 data, was about 7935 households.Data were obtained from questionnaire of RKD13 Block Jb; Breast milk and complementary foods and RKD13 Block III; Block IV included education, work, economic/quintile, and geography. Household categories were household that were practicing early weaning pattern to their babies 0-6 months old.Thedata analysis showed about 6.7 percent infants already got early weaning practices in 0-6 months old. When it was associated with the number of people in Indonesia in 2015 about 250 million people, then the very young baby already weaned around 1.2 million inhabitants. It was known that there was a correlation between the status of working mothers, education, and the place of residence to early weaning patterns. Early weaning practices of infants was influenced by several factors. Factors of education, occupation, economic status, and residential geography influencedthe early weaning practices.