What Indonesia “Breastfeeding Fathers” Say about Breastfeeding in COVID-19 Pandemic: A Content Analysis of AyahASI Instagram Feeds
- 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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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
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TY - CONF AU - Dinda A. Ratnasari AU - Sri Hastjarjo AU - Y. Slamet PY - 2022 DA - 2022/03/28 TI - What Indonesia “Breastfeeding Fathers” Say about Breastfeeding in COVID-19 Pandemic: A Content Analysis of AyahASI Instagram Feeds BT - Proceedings of the 2nd World Conference on Gender Studies (WCGS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 132 EP - 137 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220304.019 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220304.019 ID - Ratnasari2022 ER -