Adequate nutrition, beginning in early stages of life, is crucial to ensure good physical and mental development as well as long-term health. Efforts in improving nutritional status in Indonesia are mostly focused to the vulnerable groups, mainly infant (baby under one year old) and toodler (baby under two years old). Childhood underweight and overweight are an important public health problem, as these conditions tend to have a chronic condition that cause a wide range of future morbidity. Overweight in young children is associated with future cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and psychosocial problems and stunted children suffer from impaired growth with permanent consequences in their adult life that face a high risk of morbidity and mortality. In this case, parents (especially mothers as the role models) are mostly responsible on healthy eating behaviors of their young children. With refers to this empirical fact, the objective of this study was to assess the association of mother’s role and knowledge in feeding young children practices on the nutritional status of their infants and toddlers. Analytical cross-sectional study was used in this study. The sampling technique was purposive sampling and a total of samples were 136 mothers. Data were processed and analyzed by using a computer program with a chi-square test at a significance level of 95%. Overall, results of the statistical test showed that there were no significant associations between role and knowledge of the mothers and adequate nutritional status of their infants and toddlers at a p-value of 0.544> 0.05 and p-value of 0.749 > 0.05 respectively. Based on results of this study, more intensive nutrition intervention programs are necessary to prevent poor nutritional status of young children particularly for infant and toddler, conducting more active coordination in health cross-programs, and improving nutrition counseling programs and suitable health services for the concerned public.

Introduction: The Council Foreign Relations (CFR) study states that the phenomenon of child marriage is found in many parts of the world. Indonesia is one of the countries with the highest percentage of child marriages in the world (rank 37) and the second highest in ASEAN after Cambodia (WHO 2016). Methods: This type of research used quantitative research methods used are quasi-experimental (quasi-experimental) with pretest-posttest two group design. This study aims to determine how the effectiveness of media counseling, leaflets and lecture methods against student knowledge and attitudes about early marriage at SMA Negeri 1 Pancur Batu. This research was conducted in SMA Negeri 1 Pancur Batu with a population of 124 students with a sample of 55 students. Results and Discussion: The results of the study found that the average knowledge of students about early marriage before being given health education with leaflet media was (21.4%) and after being given health education was (28.6%). While the results of the lecture method can be obtained that the average knowledge of students about early marriage before being given health education was (3.6%) and after being given health education by the lecture method was (89.3%). Conclusion:.The conclusion of this research was that the Lecture Method is more effective in increasing students' knowledge and attitudes about early marriage compared to the media leaflets.

SDKI (2012) noted that 38.2% of prolonged labor is a maternal and perinatal cause of death. Efforts to prevent prolonged childbirth such as pelvic rocking with birth balls that support labor to run physiologically. This   study   aims   to   determine   the   effect   of   pelvic   rocking implementation with birth ball on the progress of childbirth in women giving birth at the Tanjung Pratama Clinic of Deli Tua in 2018. This study uses pre-experimental research using static group comparison design with accidental sampling technique. The sample was divided into 2 groups, the intervention group conducted pelvic rocking with birth ball for mothers during the active phase for 30 minutes as much as 2 sessions and observed the progress of labor in the control group conducted in April-July 2018. Data analysis using the independent samples test. The results show there was an influence of pelvic rocking with birth ball to the progress of labor where the average progress of labor for the birth ball status was done and was not done was different from the p-value of 0.00001 <0.05. Birth ball status was 138.2 minutes faster than birth ball status was not performed. Pelvic rocking with birth ball helps the baby to rotate to the optimal position and shorten the first stage of labor so as to reduce pain and provide comfort to the mother in the face of childbirth. It is expected that health workers can become facilitators for maternal mothers and support labor in a physiological way.

Uterine involution is the enlarged uterus that undergoes a physiological involution of about 6 weeks returning to its nonpregnant condition. Uterine subinvolusion occurs due to the uterus cannot contract properly, causing bleeding, leading possibility to death. Various synthetic drugs have been used in accelerating uterine involution by inducing uterine contractions and preventing uterine subinvolution often lead to anaphylactic reactions, short-term arterial hypotension, hot flashes and reflex tachycardia, nausea, vomiting, and heart rhythm disturbances. Concerning the adverse effects of the synthetic drugs in accelerating uterine contractions and preventing uterine subinvolution, many researchers had conducted studies pertaining to the beneficial of natural medicinal plants in accelerating uterine involution by inducing uterine contractions and preventing uterine subinvolution, including pineapple (Ananas comosus). The aim of the current study was to determine the effect of pineapple juice on the uteral involution in postpartum mothers at Pratama Jannah and Dermawati Maternity Clinics of Deli Serdang Regency in 2019. The study design was a quasi-experiment with pretest and posttest using independent t-test. The sample numbers were 40 postpartum mothers that consisted of 20 samples in the control group and 20 samples in the intervention group by predetermined criteria. The dependent variable of uteral involution by inducing uterine contractions was fundal height (the distance between the symphisis pubis and the uterine fundus) and the independent variable was pineapple juice. Fundal height was measured using a metric tape. Data collection was carried out by the means of direct interview using questionnaires and observation sheets. The data were analyzed using independent t-test. The statistical test used was t-test. Results of the statistical t-test revealed that p-value =0.0001 &lt; &alpha; = 0.05, in which Ho was rejected, meaning that there was a significant difference in the group control group and the intervention group on the uterine involution in postpartum mothers with p-value was 0.002 (&alpha; &lt;0.05). It was concluded that pineapple juice showed a significant effect in reducing uterine subinvolution and accelerated uterine involution of postpartum mothers at Pratama Jannah and Dermawati Maternity Clinics in Deli Serdang Regency. It is suggested to use pineapple juice as natural therapy in reducing the adverse effects of uteral involution.

The results of data obtained from the Tangeban Inpatient Health Center of Masama District in the last three years, namely in 2015 showed that out of 269 toddlers, the prevalence of toddlers who weighed below normal was 32 people (11.9%), height below normal was 53 people (19.8%). In 2016, out of 489 under-fives, the prevalence of under-fives who weighed below normal was 73 people (14.9%), height below normal was 73 people (14.9%). Whereas in 2017 there were 493 toddlers, the prevalence of toddlers whose weight was below normal was 73 people (14.8%), height below normal was also 75 people (15.3%). From the target to be achieved by health workers Tangeban Inpatient Health Center Masama District is <1.0%. Or even 0%. The research design used is Analytical Observational Research, where the researcher only makes observations or observations of the research subject and looks for data related to the research without intervening in the variables to be studied. The type of research design used is Cross sectional design, namely by conducting data collection, measurement or observation of data on independent and dependent variables only once at one time at the same time. the number of samples used was 60 mothers of toddlers. The results of the study There is a relationship between maternal knowledge variables and children's nutritional status at Tangeban Health Center. This is evidenced from 41 respondents whose nutritional status is good, there are 33 respondents who have good knowledge and there are 8 respondents who have poor knowledge. While out of 19 people whose nutritional status is not good, there are 4 respondents who have good knowledge and there are 15 respondents whose nutritional knowledge is still classified as low or not good.