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On parturition time, the mother often complained about the breast like sometimes felt heavy, hot and sometimes pain. This condition made the mother reluctant to breastfeed the baby, so that the successful achievement of low breast milk. According to the United Nations Children s Fund (UNICEF) by the journal Pediatrics, revealed the data in the world is having problems breastfeeding mothers around 17,230,142 lives consisting of abrasions nipple 56,4% mothers, who have engorgement breast milk is aroound 36,12% mothers, and mastitis 7,5% mothers. This study objective was to determine the relationship of knowledge about breast care postpartum mothers with breastfeeding in the engorgement prevention at Bunda Patimah clinic Medan in 2015. The research used an analytic survey with cross sectional approach. The population in this study was post partum mothers in clinical of mother patimah amounted 30 respondentse population were taken as the sample of this study. The data used primary data and secondary data and the Chi-square test. The research results obtained out of 30 respondents, who have lack of knowledge of breast care amounted 18 respondents (60.0%), who had enough knowledge was 8 respondents (26.7%) and who had good knowledge was (13.3%) post partum mothers. Chi-square the results at 95% confidence level with α = 0.05, it can be decided that the probability of (Asymp Sig) variable knowledge of postpartum mothers is 0.016 (p <0.05). The conclusion of this study that there is a relationship between knowledge of puerperal women about breast care with engorgement prevention breast milk. It is expected that the task of health, especially in Medan Patimah Bunda Clinic to provide information on how the breast care to prevent the engorgerment of breast milk.

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