historical relationship of feeding with stunting events of children under twoyears of age 6-23 months in district malili, luwu timur regency

Stunting reflects chronic malnutrition during the most critical period of growth and developmentin early life, namely ages 0-24 months. giving inappropriate intake in this early period will have animpact on conditions in the form of stunting nutritional status in children. the purpose of this study wasto analyze the relationship between feeding history and the incidence of baduta (children under two yearsof age) stunting (6-23 months) in malili district, east luwu regency.this type of research is aquantitative study with cross-sectional study design. the population of the study was all 738 baduta in themalili district. the research sample was 260 baduta and mother baduta as respondents who were taken bysimple random sampling. data were analyzed using chi-square and logistic regression.the results showedthat 31.9% of baduta (children under two years of age) were stunted. the results of the chi-square testshowed that colostrum (p = 0.000), prelactal (p = <0.000), and exclusive breastfeeding (p = <0.000) wereassociated with the incidence of stunting. the results of the logistic regression test showed that there wasa significant effect of giving colostrum (p = 0.035) and exclusive breastfeeding (p = 0.008) on theincidence of stunting. the variable with the greatest influence on the incidence of stunting was exclusivebreastfeeding with an or = 2.533. it is suggested to increase counseling about breastfeeding in the earlystages from pre-marriage to pregnancy.