Proceedings of the 2nd World Conference on Gender Studies (WCGS 2021)

What Indonesia “Breastfeeding Fathers” Say about Breastfeeding in COVID-19 Pandemic: A Content Analysis of AyahASI Instagram Feeds

Authors
Dinda A. Ratnasari*, Sri Hastjarjo, Y. Slamet
Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta, Indonesia
Corresponding Author
Dinda A. Ratnasari
Available Online 28 March 2022.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220304.019How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Breastfeeding; Pandemic; COVID-19; Precautions; AyahASI; Instagram
Abstract

Breastfeeding in Corona Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic era becomes an issue that implicates the health aspect of maternal-baby dyad, especially for suspected or confirmed COVID-19 mother. Though its various benefits such as preventing breast and ovarian cancer for the mother and as a passive immunization for the baby, breastfeeding, specifically the direct one, of suspected or confirmed COVID-19 mother has a potency of virus transmission from mother to the baby. Various precautions that consider natural breastfeeding was enforced to prevent the potential for the information, including hygiene precautions, provisioning of expressed breast milk, even temporary separation of mother and the baby. This issue, then, was highlighted by a group of “Breastfeeding Fathers” in Indonesia, who called themselves as AyahASI, who considering COVID-19 as an issue in their nine-year breastfeeding campaign. AyahASI is a group of fathers formed in 2012 and committed to supporting their wives and every mother in Indonesia to breastfeed their children. This study was conducted to describe how COVID-19 issue was framed in AyahASI Instagram. From 743 Instagram feeds of @id_ayahasi, 15 of them is related to the breastfeeding practice in pandemic COVID-19 era. The description about how AyahASI framed COVID-19 in its Instagram account explained further by content analysis method in this study.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd World Conference on Gender Studies (WCGS 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
28 March 2022
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.220304.019
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220304.019How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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