Background:Wasteis a condition of acute malnutrition where the weight of a toddler is not in accordance with his height and the z-score value <-2. Toddlerhood is an important life and needs to be considered by parents. Toddlers need to get nutrients from daily food in the right amount and good quality. Education, maternal knowledge affects children's food choices, good maternal parenting patterns, children will grow and develop well by coming to the integrated health post, monitoring toddler weight is a positive attitude in solving problems. Purpose: This study was to determine the level of education, knowledge and maternal parenting patterns on the incidence of wasting in the work area of ??the Nabarua Health Center UPTD, Nabire Regency. Method: The research design used was Cross Sectional. The sample used was 30 toddlers using total sampling. Data analysis used the Statistical Program for Social Science (SPSS) Version 16.0 computer release program and used the chi-square test. Results: test of the relationship between maternal education (p value = 0.23), maternal knowledge (p-value = 0.43), and Parenting (p-value = 0.82). Conclusion: There is no relationship between maternal education, maternal knowledge, and maternal parenting patterns with wasting incidents. Suggestion: It is expected that mothers of toddlers provide daily food in the right amount and good quality, good maternal parenting patterns so that children grow and develop well by coming to the integrated health post to monitor their child's weight.
 
 

Background:Toddlerhood is the most central phase of a child because the growth and development of children can run quickly, precisely the age of 0-2 years is the golden period of children, because brain development reaches 80%. Cases of BB/TB nutrition at the Kalibobo Health Center UPTD, 6 cases of malnutrition, 3 cases of undernutrition, 12 cases at risk of overnutrition. The task of parents, especially mothers, in the practice of caring for toddlers so that the basic needs of nurturing patterns, loving patterns and parenting patterns affect the process of child growth and development. Objective: To determine the relationship between nurturing patterns, loving patterns and parenting patterns to the nutritional status of toddlers in the Kalibobo Health Center UPTD Work Area. Method: Quantitative research type with a cross-sectional approach. The population of 222 toddlers became 69 toddler samples using the slovin formula. The sampling technique is purposive sampling. Data analysis using Statistical Program for Social Science (SPSS) software version 16.0 with the chi-square test. Results: The test of the relationship between the sharpening pattern p-value 0.30 (>0.05), the affection pattern p-value 0.00 (<0.05), and the parenting pattern p-value 0.00 (<0.05). Conclusion: The sharpening pattern and the nutritional status of toddlers have no relationship, the affection pattern and parenting pattern have a relationship with the nutritional status of toddlers in the Working Area of ??the Kalibobo Health Center UPTD. Suggestion: It is necessary to carry out counseling on the sharpening pattern, affection, parenting, types of activities and the importance of integrated health posts to mothers.

Malnutrition in children under 5 years old is a condition when the child's weight is below the moderate range. Objective: to determine the factors that influence the incidence of malnutrition in toddlers aged 6-59 months in the Wiyega Health Center Working Area, Paniai Regency. Method: The type of research is quantitative with analytical observational cross-sectional approach. The population taken using total sampling of 30 samples who experienced malnutrition at the Wiyega Health Center, Paniai Regency. Data analysis using the computer release program (SPSS) version 16.0 and using chi square. Results: There is a relationship between the level of maternal employment and the incidence of malnutrition with a p-value of 0.00 (<0.05), there is a relationship between the level of maternal education and the incidence of malnutrition with a p-value of 0.00 (<0.05), there is a relationship between the level of maternal knowledge and the incidence of malnutrition with a p-value of 0.01 (<0.05) and there is a relationship between exclusive breastfeeding and the incidence of malnutrition. Conclusion: Based on the results of the study, it was concluded that there is a relationship between maternal employment, education, knowledge, exclusive breastfeeding and the incidence of malnutrition. Suggestion: To be input for mothers who have toddlers aged 6-59 months to be able to increase knowledge and be aware of the importance of paying more attention to toddlers regarding the nutritional intake they receive.
 
 

Background:Stunting reflects the condition of children under the age of five, due to malnutrition especially in the first 1000 days of life (HPK), children are very short for their age. In Indonesia, stunting is a major and major problem that is being faced. Toddlers are children over one year old and children under 5 years old. Objective: To determine the factors associated with stunting in toddlers in the working area of ??the Lagari Inpatient Health Center UPTD, Nabire Regency. Method: The type of research used in this study is quantitative and the design used is observational analytic. Results: analysis test using the chi-square test p-value> 0.05, 0.82 indicates that there is no relationship between education and stunting in toddlers. Analysis test using the chi-square test p-value> 0.05, namely 0.09 indicates that there is no relationship between work and stunting in toddlers. Analysis test using the chi-square test p-value <0.05, namely 0.04 indicates that there is a relationship between income and stunting in toddlers. Analysis test using chi-square test p-value <0.05, which is 0.05 indicates that there is a relationship between knowledge and the incidence of stunting in toddlers. Analysis test using chi-square test p-value <0.05, which is 0.05 indicates that there is a relationship between exclusive breastfeeding and the incidence of stunting in toddlers. Conclusion: Factors that influence stunting in toddlers include: education, employment, income, knowledge and exclusive breastfeeding. There is no relationship between education and employment with the incidence of stunting in toddlers, and there is a relationship between employment, knowledge and exclusive breastfeeding with the incidence of stunting in toddlers. Suggestion: Create a program on stunting, especially the factors that influence stunting to reduce stunting rates and need to increase counseling activities on stunting for mothers of toddlers to increase awareness and understanding of stunting.
 

The Maternal and Child Health (MCH) book is an initiative by the Indonesian Ministry of Health aimed at addressing child nutrition problems. However, at the Karang Mulia Health Center UPTD, the distribution and utilization of the MCH book among mothers of toddlers have not met the national target. The area has reported 164 cases of undernutrition and 74 cases of overnutrition in children under five. This study aims to determine the relationship between the level of maternal knowledge in utilizing the MCH book and the nutritional status of toddlers aged 12-59 months in the working area of the Karang Mulia Health Center UPTD. This correlational analytic research used a cross-sectional approach. The study population included 640 toddlers, with 90 selected samples of mothers who had the MCH book. Purposive sampling was employed, and data were analyzed using the Statistical Program for Social Science (SPSS) version 16.0, applying the chi-square test. The study found no significant relationship between maternal knowledge in using the MCH book and the nutritional status of toddlers. The p-values for the BB/A, PB/A or TB/A, and BB/PB or BB/TB indices were 0.345, 0.851, and 0.282, respectively, all greater than 0.05. There is no significant relationship between maternal knowledge of the MCH book and the nutritional status of toddlers aged 12-59 months in the Karang Mulia Health Center UPTD.