The World Health Organization (WHO) found the number of infant deaths at 560,000, which is caused by infection of the umbilicalcord. Mothers who lack knowledge in teating the cord, causing the mother to usetraditional medicine clostridium tetanithus enabling the development of which can cause to infant mortality a baby. Types of quantitative analytic research. Cross sectional research design. The total of respondents as a sample of 20 postpartum. Data collection technique with accidental sampling and data analysis using univariate analysis and bivariate analysis. The result of univariate analysis showed that the majority of parity correctly as much as  10 postpartum (50%) , then knowledge the majority correctly as much as 13 postpartum (65%) . From bivariate analysis shows that there is a relationship between parity with postpartum knowledge about the umbilical cord carebecause ρ value < 0,05 (ρ value = 0,034).

Background: Infant mortality in Indonesia is at the highest level among the countries in South East Asia. Asphyxia in newborn has become the second risk factor for infant mortality.Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the correlation between the level of hemoglobin, hematocrit, and thrombocytes of the mothers and asphyxia in the newborns at Panembahan Senopati Bantul Hospital.Methods: The study employed case-control method with 282 samples, which 141 assigned in the case and control group. This study used medical record of the patients as the secondary data. Chi-square, multiple logistic regression, and Odds Ratio Calculation (OR) were used for data analysis.Results: There was a meaningful correlation between the level of hemoglobin (OR=2.3, 95%CI=1.3-4), hematocrit (OR=4.3, 95%CI=1.4-13.4, and thrombocytes (OR=5.3, 95%CI=1.14-24.6) of the mothers and asphyxia in newborns. Thrombocytes was the most dominant factor related to asphyxia in newborns..Conclusion: Mothers who have hemoglobin, hematocrit and thrombocytes levels under the normal have more than 2 times risk of asphyxia in their newborn than mothers who have normal hemoglobin, hematocrit and thrombocytes levels.