Colostrum is the milk produced by mammary glands in late stages of pregnancy and a few days after childbirth, and nutrition, the content needed for baby's body defense against infection, especially imonoglobulin, so it requires a good knowledge of the mother. The purpose of this study was to find out knowledge of post partum maternal colostrum primipara in room of Lotus RSUD Pare.Kediri.
The research design is descriptive. The population is all primipara mothers post partum room RSUD Pare Kediri, the sampling technique used was Accidental sampling, data collection by questionnaire with a total 13 questions, research was conducted on 12 April 2010-room 11Mei Lotus Pare Hospital, then processed and analyzed by way of editing, cording, scoring, tabulating, data is presented in pie chart
The result showed that out of 23 respondents who researched, Most of the respondents had knowledge about colostrum understanding with less category ie 12 respondents (52.17%) the benefits of colostrum 15 respondents (62.22%) with less category, content of colostrum as many as 18 respondents (78 , 26%), Most of the respondents had knowledge about colostrum with less category of 15 respondents (65.22%)
The above is caused due to lack of information about colostrum and low education levels, is expected to primipara mothers to attend health education in posyandu, reading books / magazine. It is also expected that health workers to increase the socialization of colostrum.