PENGARUH PEMIJATAN BAYI ( BABY MASSAGE ) TERHADAP KUALITAS TIDUR DAN TUMBUH KEMBANG BAYI USIA 6 SAMPAI 12 BULAN.DI DESA SIAGA KECAMATAN SUNGAI RAYA.KABUPATEN KUBU RAYA.TAHUN 2023

Abstract

Background: Babies are human children who have recently been born. In a medical context, babies who are under 28 days old are called neonates (from the Latin neonatus, newly born. The terms premature babies and postmature babies refer to babies born with a normal gestational duration of 37-40 weeks. Baby massage or Baby massage is the stimulation of development and growth in babies by combining services between baby gym, swimming (baby swim), baby massage. Babies who are given a baby spa will have different growth and development from babies who are not given a baby spa Because the baby spa series aims to stimulate the baby's sensory and motor nerves by providing certain stimuli so that the baby grows actively and is more optimal both physically and mentally (Momnjo, 2013). Objective: to find out the effect of baby massage on the quality of sleep & growth before and after. Baby massage was carried out on babies aged 6-12 months. Method: Counseling and demonstration of baby massage on the quality of sleep and growth and development of babies aged 6-12 months who came to the standby village posyandu as many as 30 people. Results: based on the counseling evaluation, the average pre-test value and post-test value each show a mean value of 033, std deviation of 964, while the std error value is 176 and t is 189 at Df 29 and the significance level is 0.153, so The value shows that the p value is (0.153>0.05). So it can be concluded that giving baby massage on sleep quality and growth and development has no effect on baby massage for babies aged 6-12 months.