Paper Title
The Influence of Calories and Protein Sufficiency in Breastfeeding Mothers Toward the Rate of the Baby Weight Gain

Abstract
Background: Breast milk is a fat emulsion secreted by the breast gland. Breast milk is the main food in the first months of a baby's life because it has the most appropriate nutritional value and provides protection toward some diseases.[1] In addition, breast milk helps the babies grow and develop optimally. The food consumed by the mothers influence the breast milk production. Lactating women need an extra calories and protein to provide enough nutrition in order to support the quality and quantity of breast milk production. Furthermore the nutrition of breastfeeding mothers should be sufficient. Objective: This study aimed to find the influence of calories and protein intake of lactation women toward the rate of baby weight gain. Methods: This study was observational study. The seventy nine breastfeeding mothers were involved in this study. Data were collected from the food recall of breastfeeding mothers and the weighing of the baby weight. Food recall was done twice in the separate times by asking food consumed by mothers during 24 hours. The baby weight was measured weekly for four weeks. The normality data was tested using Shapiro Wilk. The data which was normal distributed analyzed using independent t-test. Mann Whitney test was used in analysing data which was not normally distributed. Result: There was a significance differences of weight gain rate of the baby of mothers with insufficient calories daily intake compare to the baby of the mothers with sufficient calories daily intake (p=0.023). Therefore, there was no significance difference of the weight gain rate in the both group of mothers, sufficient or insufficient of protein. Keywords - Breast Milk, Breastfeeding, Calories, Insufficient, Lactation Women, Protein