Nutrition is very important to support the various activities of daily life. Problems of malnutrition can not be<br />separated from the nutrients consumed. Until today many mothers who do not know about balanced<br />nutrition, so less motivated to dig up information about the type, processing and presentation of good<br />nutrition to children. The aim of research to analyze the relationship between motivation mothers provide<br />balanced nutrition to the growth and development of children in the village Jatiwates Tembelang District of<br />Jombang.This type of research is an analytic cross-sectional, population is all Mother who has particularly<br />children in the village Jatiwates District of Tembelang Jombang in 2012 some 224 people, with a sample of<br />144 people with engineering cluster random sampling, independent variables maternal motivation provide<br />balanced nutrition, the dependent variable of growth and early childhood development. Collecting data using<br />KMS and KPSP, data analysis using the Spearman rank test. The results showed nearly half (48.6%)<br />maternal motivation in providing balanced nutrition is strong as many as 70 people, moderate growth of<br />more than half (54.9%) infant growth are good as much as 79 people, the development shows the majority<br />(75.7%) of early childhood development is appropriate as many as 109 people. Spearman rank test<br />correlation between motivation with growth of infants is = 0.000 &lt;0.05 then there is a relationship H1<br />accepted and spearman rank test correlation between motivation with development of infants is = 0.012<br />&lt;0.05 then there is a relationship H1 accepted. It can be concluded that with the strong motivation in<br />providing balanced nutrition, the growth and development of infants accordingly.