BAB I

PROLOGUE
1.1 Background
Every people can infected by disease and women can infected also. Sometime careless
women can infected any disease, especially at their breast. As we know breast was an
important organ for a women, not only make them seen beautiful and pretty, breast is
important to breast feeding for their baby. Most women didnt know that they have a
disease in their breast, because they not pay attention enough to their breast. Many
women just know that their breast have a disease when the disease was reaching a deadly
stadium. Even in fact 95% womens breast can grow without problem, but 5% was a high
numbers for a disease and we cant know whose can infected. So, there is no mistake if
we take care of our breast from early to detect disease in our breast.
1.2 Formulation of the problem
a. What is breast care?
b. What the steps of breast care?
c. What is the negative effect if we didnt do breast care?
d. What is the benefit from breast care?
1.3 Purpose of writing
a. To explain about breast care.
b. To explain about the steps of breast care.
c. To know the negative effect if we didnt breast care.
d. To know the benefit from breast care.

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DISCUSSION
2.1 Definition of Breast care
Breast care is an exercises that done consciously and regularly to keep breast
health while pregnant with purpose to prepare the lactation when post partum. Breast
care is an exercise to detect disease in breast early. Breast care will be better done
when we still a teenager because usually a deadly disease like tumor or cancer need a
long time to grow to deadly stadium, so we anticipate that from beginning stadium
when the condition of the disease is still weak and curable.
Breast care should be done as early as possible during pregnancy in effort to
prepare shape and breast function before lactation. If prepare less, it can make
abnormality in baby suction caused by little size of nipple. Another effect is retarded
breast milk production and the breast hygiene is not secured and can be dangerous for
baby health. At mother side, as the careless effect, when child birthing the mother
isnt ready yet for breast feeding and can make tender or tickling feel at the breast
when the baby breast feeding.
2.2 Purpose of breast care
As we explain before, the purpose from breast care is to detect disease early in
breast. Many people have a cancer or tumor in their breast just because they didnt
know that.
If we do breast care, usually we will find a tumor in our breast (even not every
tumor will be a cancer because maybe that was a breast gland). This is the other
purpose of breast care:
1. Preventing breast milk stoppage
2. Increase hygiene of breast
3. Increase the production of breast milk
4. Make nipple fleksible and solid
2.3 Negative effect if we didnt do breast care
The negative effect can be happen if breast care didnt do as early as possible. That
negative effect including:
1. Nipple will be go down
2. Breast feeding will be hard to do
3. Breast milk delayed
4. Limited breast milk production
5. Tumor at breast
6. Inflammation at breast
7. Breast dirty
8. Unready to breast feeding
9. Nipple will be easy wounded
2.4 Benefit of breast care
1. Keep breast clean, especially from infection

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Chewing and fixing the shape of nipple, so baby can breast feeding well
Stimulating mammary gland, so fluent the breast milk production
Knowing early nipples abnormality and trying to prevent it
Psychological prepare for mother to breast feeding

2.5 Breast care steps

1. Bra using
It will be better when pregnant mother use bra that not tight or loose and can prop
up breast, large rope, and made from cotton or cotton mixed so that will be nice
when used and absorbing breast sweat.
2. Breast care steps
a. The nipples compressed by oil cotton as long as 3 until 4 minute, than clean it
with that oil cotton
b. Rubbering is the nipples hold by thumb and point finger than turn it inside 20
times and outside 20 times
c. Pulling nipples
1. Hoffman moves, the areola stretched by thumb and point finger. Than pull
the nipples 20 times, than the nipples turned inside 20 times and outside 20
times
2. Stimulated with the point of wash lap
3. Using nipples pump
d. Breast messaging
1. Officer palm hands given by baby oil, than spread it
2. Put two of hands between breasts, massaging start to top, than to the side
of breast. Do massage until under the breast. Repeat each move 20-30
times for each breast
3. Prop up left breast with one of your hands while the other hand massaging
with little finger from side to the nipple and otherwise. Do it 30 times
4. Prop up right breast with one of your hands while the other hand
massaging with little finger from side to the nipple and otherwise. Do it 30
times
5. Clean breast with clean water and wash lap
6. After massaging, flush breast with warm water and cold water alternately
during 5 minute (warm water first, than cold water)

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COVER
3.1 Conclution
Breast care was very important to do, because breast care has many benefit for women,
especially for a mother or pregnant women. Beside that, a teenager can do breast care as a
disease detection at breast.
3.2 Suggestion
It is really important to known by every single women in trying to prevent breast disease.

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G, Patricia. 1986. Payudara: Apa yang perlu diketahui oleh wanita, Judul asli: What Every
woman Should Know about Her Breast,alih bahasa oleh: Margaretha Tjun Fong. Jakarta:
ARCAN
Perkumpulan Perinatologi Indonesia. 2003. Manajemen Laktasi. Jakarta
Team of FKPP SPK. Perawatan Kebidanan yang Berorientasi pada Keluarga. Bandung
www.dokterkita.com

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