Putri Suastini Koster Asks Mothers-to-be To Understand The Importance Of Taking Care Of Babies To Avoid Stunting

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JAKARTA - The head of the Bali Family Empowerment and Welfare Team (TP PKK), Putri Suastini Koster, asked mother-to-be to understand the importance of maintaining the health of babies to avoid stunting, one of which is by providing complete nutrition with exclusive breastfeeding for at least six months.

"After birth, babies must also continue to receive more attention regarding complete nutritional intake, exclusive breastfeeding for at least six months and knowledge of additional food for babies so as not to interfere with digestion," said Putri Suastini Koster in Denpasar, quoted from Antara, Saturday, August 20.

The wife of the Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster, said that in other words, babies must receive attention and complete nutritional intake for growth and development in the first 1,000 days of life, including while in the mother's womb.

Through the movement to prevent stunting, voiced by the Bali Province TP PKK, all agencies are invited to work together, until now Bali has recorded a low stunting rate compared to other provinces, which is 10.9 percent.

"However, the number of stunting must be reduced, namely with all efforts involving PKK cadres throughout Bali, relevant government agencies so that stunting cases do not become a frightening specter for the progress of the Indonesian nation in the future," said Putri Suastini.

The chairman of the Bali Province TP PKK said that a country will progress if it has a healthy, strong and intelligent generation to lead. This intelligence is said to lie in physical health.

In addition, it is important for parents to be internally responsible for providing knowledge from an early age to their teenage children who will later become mothers-to-be to maintain diet, sleep patterns, positive thinking patterns, use gadgets that are not excessive and must consume blood-boosting tablets as a teenager.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Bali Province BKKBN Representative, Ni Luh Gede Sukardiasih, added that the importance of parenting through attention greatly affects children's intelligence.

"Don't let our children grow up under pressure so that it affects their appetite which can later cause them to experience insomnia due to acute anemia, which is one of the factors that causes stunting to occur, because medically stunting is a condition that interferes with the child's growth and development. not genetic, but due to lack of attention to parenting," said Sukardiasih.