Infant massage has been a long time and common practice, yet investigating this technique in the academic context is still rarely done. Mother in fact plays an important role in ensuring the effectiveness of infant massage, and therefore she is required to learn about it. This research attempts to find out the effects of infant massage training and education on the infant’s physical development for mother in rural areas in Indonesia. This study was designed to compare two groups, namely, the first group of 17 mothers with infant massage education and training intervention since the third trimester, and the second group of 17 mothers without intervention. Body weight, body length, circumference of the upper arms, suckling frequency and suckling duration of the babies in the two groups were compared one month after delivery. One month after the group of mothers giving massage to their babies, there were significant differences (p < 0.05) in body weight, body length, suckling frequency of the babies in the two groups, while none for circumference of upper arms and suckling duration. Comparing the effects of massage on babies before and after giving infant massage, there were significant differences in suckling durations and body weight of the babies. Our study suggests that, after receiving an education on infant massage, mothers with babies are recommended to give massage to their babies. Infant massage brings various benefits to the babies, and it can be performed in natural contexts, including in rural setting.

The provision of maternal services during the pandemic needs to be a concern to avoid an increase in maternal morbidity and mortality, especially at this time there are restrictions on maternal health services in the form of anxiety during pregnancy during the Covid19 pandemic. The type of research used in this study is descriptive which aims to determine the anxiety of pregnant women about ante natal care services in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic at the Bandar Khalipah Health Center in 2020. The population in this study were all pregnant women who did ANC checks in the Bandar Khalipah Health Center area. The sampling technique used in this study was accidental sampling (sampling when the study was conducted) totaled 34 people. The results of the study found that the majority of respondents had mild anxiety (44%) about Ante Natal Care services in the Covid-19 pandemic era. From the results of this study, pregnant women should seek correct information about safe pregnancy during the Covid-19 pandemic so that they can change the anxiety of pregnant women about Ante Natal Care services in the Covid-19 pandemic era assisted by health workers in health education activities.

Latar belakang, Cemas menghadapi persalinan merupakan kondisi yang paling sering dialami oleh ibu hamil pada trimester ketiga kehamilannya. Cemas yang berlebihan dapat menyebabkan gangguan fisik maupun psikis pada ibu yang dapat mempengaruhi proses persalinannya. Risiko persalinan akan meningkat seiring dengan meningkatnya tingkat kecemasan. Jumlah ibu hamil yang terdeteksi mengalami kecemasan di Indonesia sebanyak 379.000.000 ibu hamil,sedangkan di Pulau Sumatera dari 679.765 ibu hamil 355.873(52,3%). Berbagai upaya untuk mengurangi kecemasan ini diantaranya dengan pemberian aromaterapi. Pengabdian ini bertujuan untuk memberikan pemahaman pada ibu-ibu hamil trimester III bahwa salah satu upaya mengurangi kecemasan adalah dengan pemberian Aromaterapi. Metode pengabdian dengan memberi pengetahuan kepada ibu hamil manfaat aromaterapi dan langsung menerapkan penggunaan aromaterapi pada ibu hamil trimester III. Hasil dari pengabdian, setelah dilakukan penyuluhan tentang manfaat aromatherapy pada 15  ibu hamil dan penerapan langsung manfaat aromatherapy ini,ibu hamil mengetahui manpaat aromaterapi dan bersedia menerapkan pemakaian aromaterapi pada saat bersalin. Pengukuran tingkat kecemasan ibu sebelum dilakukan dan sesudah dilakukan terjadi perubahan yang signifikans. Disarankan kepada ibu-ibu untuk tetap menggunakan aromaterapi pada kehamilan berikutnya.

Physiologically, all women who give birth will experience pain during labor process and statistically, labor pain cannot be tolerated by two out of three mothers. Women who get massages during labor will experience a significant decrease in anxiety, reduction in pain, and shorter delivery time. No wonder that endorphin massage technique is important to be mastered by pregnant women and husbands who enter the gestational age of the 36th week. The second thing that can be done to deal with the labor pain besides the endorphin massage is dancing. Dancing is a performance art but also can heal and free someone, especially the pregnant women who suffer from psychological disorders. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of belly dance combined with endorphin massage in reducing pain in the first stage of labor at the Beringin Health Center Tapian Dolok District, Simalungun Regency. The hypothesis in this study was belly dance and endorphin massage were effective in reducing pain in primiparous mothers. The type of this research was a quasi-experiment. The design of this study was pre and post-test design. The required number of samples was 16 + 1.6 = 17.6 or n = 18 samples, that was the sample size for the control group was 18 samples and the sample size for the treatment group was 18 samples, so the total number of samples needed in this study were n = 36 respondents. The results showed that there was an effect of endorphin massage combined with belly dance (asymp.sig 0.004) on reducing pain in first stage of labor. This study is expected to provide an education to pregnant women about the importance of the belly dance combined with endorphin massage in reducing pain in first stage of labor, so that pregnant women can do a belly dance combined with endorphin massage at home.

Kehamilan dapat merupakan sumber stressor kecemasan, terutama pada seorang ibu yang labil jiwanya.Prevalensi (angka kesakitan) gangguan kecemasan berkisar pada 6-7% dari populasi umum. Intervensi untukmengurangi ketidaknyamanan dalam kehamilan ini dapat dilakukan dengan menggunakan tindakan nonfarmakologi, yaitu Aromtherapi dan relaksasi otot progresiff. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengidentifikasitingkat kecemasan ibu sebelum diberi intervensi aromatherapy, relaksasi otot dan kombinasi keduanya dansesudahnya. Jenis penelitian dengan quasi experiment studies dengan pendekatan pre dan post test padakelompok intervensi. Populasi ibu hamil trimester III sampel menggunakan consecutive sampling yangmemenuhi criteria inklusi. Hasil penelitian tingkat kecemasan ibu kelompok intervensi aromaterapi sebelumintervensi mayoritas pada kategori sedang, 90%, sesudah intervensi berubah menjadi kategori ringan 50%,pada kelompok intervensi relaksasi otot tingkat kecemasan sebelum intervensi kategori sedang 90% dansesudah intervensi mayoritas kategori ringan, 55%. Kelompok kombinasi kedua intervensi mayoritas tingkatkecemasan responden sebelum intervensi mayoritas kategori sedang 75% dan sesudah intervensi menjadiringan 60%. Hasil uji anova menunjukkan ada perbedaan yang bermakna perubahan tingkat kecemasanresponden pada intervensi aromaterapi, relaksasi otot progresife dan kombinasi aromaterapi dan relaksasiotot (sig = 0,00; sig < 0,05). Yang paling berpengaruh menurunkan tingkat kecemasan adalah intervensikombinasi keduanya. Saran kepada ibu hamil agar selalu berusaha menurunkan kecemasan, danmembagikan ilmu dan keterampilan yang didapat.