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Baby Feeding Culture in Korea
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While each individual and family has their own perspective when it comes to raising a child, cultural factors inevitably shape those decisions. As a foreigner, it may be surprising to see or hear the differences that come about in regards to baby feeding. Whether that may be breastfeeding, bottle feeding, starting solids on purees, or baby-led weaning, many Korean families choose to do it a certain way, possibly due to the homogeneous culture that Korean society has. Though there is no pressure to follow the considered “norm” in Korea, it could be helpful to be aware of how and what Korean families choose when it comes to feeding their children.
Breastfeeding vs. Formula Feeding
It’s a globally accepted notion that breastfeeding is recommended for the first six months of life. Regardless if you’re based in the States or Korea, care providers would agree and encourage the family to try breastfeeding until the baby is half a year old. Of course, this is a personal choice that many make based upon their personal circumstances, whether the mother is going back to work, and so on. However, unlike some Western countries, it’s a quite noticeable trend to see many mothers in Korea quit breastfeeding within the first few months. Some may blame it on the feeding habits that were quickly formed after birth at the hospital and postpartum birth care centers (산후조리원), where the bottle - meaning formula - is offered first, rather than the breast. Others are eager to go back to work and choose to go with formula after the first few weeks or months, while many choose to opt for formula or for a hybrid feed for their own personal preferences.
Baby formula is so popular to the extent that literally almost every household with a newborn has the “formula pot” (분유포트) that boils the water and sustains the perfect temperature for mixing baby formula and water together. This is a time-saver and one of the must-have items, along with bottle sterilizers, that many parents swear by when it comes to bottle-feeding.
You can also hear many stories of how mothers also go to clinics and hospitals to request medication that prevents lactation versus slowly reducing the number and length of feedings for natural cessation, as is recommended by many doctors or is widely done in the West. This can be due to the difficulty of breastfeeding, a personal choice to quickly seek physical freedom to gain recovery in “bouncing back” quickly, or going back to the workplace.
Puree vs. Baby Led Weaning
Depending on your baby’s development, weight, and your pediatrician, most would give the green light on starting solid foods at 4-6 months old. Baby-led weaning is a feeding concept that is growing in popularity in Western countries, like the United States but is still a cautious phenomenon to be observed in Korea. The majority of Koreans start baby food (이유식) with purees, but in the form of rice porridges (쌀미음) or otherwise known as juk (죽). For puree starters in the States, oatmeal, rice cereal, or fruit are one of the popular choices, but in Korea, it’s safe to say that all mothers give ground-up boiled white rice as their baby’s first food.
This is due to two reasons. One is that white rice is easily digested and two, that it serves as a base to go with “side dishes” or other pureed food later on. Many Korean baby food recipe books also introduce recipes that mix pureed vegetables with the rice porridge, even when it’s their first-time taste-testing the food itself. This can help the baby naturally eat Korean meals later on as the purees or porridges mimic that of cuisines. Unlike the West, where some herb seasonings are added in baby food, Korean mothers plan to go bland for at least the very first year of life. As the baby grows, the texture of the porridge becomes chunkier and less soupy until the baby is eating full solids from about 12 months old. Because purees are given to babies for a prolonged time, some mothers choose to invest in a magical baby food maker (이유식제조기) that not only blends the food together but also steams it first to save time. Others just choose to go the traditional route of steaming it in a baby food pot (이유식 냄비) and blending it afterward.
Baby-led weaning (유아주도식), is still not widely accepted though the younger generation is more open to this idea. Parents and in-laws who are traditional and conservative look down on this, seeing it as a choking hazard and somewhat of a lack of responsibility or laziness on the mother’s part. Baby-led weaning is rather something that is done when the baby is passed (or of) 12 months of age, rather than having it be the baby’s first way of encountering food.
Expat Kids Korea
Childcare Giving Birth and Childbearing
Korean Baby Food for 12 Month-Old
Have you ever wondered what Korean moms feed their babies, or more particularly, do you want to know what I fed our sons when they were around 1 year old? Okay, today I will teach you how to make a delicious and nutritious Korean baby food. Even if you don’t have a baby to feed, you can still make it for yourself because it tastes great if you add a little salt.
Before I start, I want to give a shout out to my sister-in-law in Korea because she is watching my videos and she gave me the cute dress that I’m wearing today last year. Let’s get started.
Yield: 6 Servings
Short Korean Lesson
- IYuSik (이유식) = Baby Food
- AGi (아기) = Baby
Video Instructions
Main Ingredients:
- 1½ Cups Cooked Rice
- ⅔ Cup Zucchini (3 oz, 80g)
Broth Ingredients:
- 3 Cups Water
- 5 oz Boneless Chicken Breast or Tender (150g)
- 3 oz Onion (80g)
- 1 oz Carrot (35g)
- 2 Pieces Dried Kelp (1×1 inch)
Directions
Prepare about 5 oz of boneless chicken. I will use 2 chicken tenders today, but you can use about ½ of a chicken breast also. At the same time, cook some rice to use later. Of course, you can also use leftover rice for this recipe too.
We use short grain rice for Korean cuisine, but you can use whatever kind of rice that you have.
We are going to get the flavor from tasty chicken broth. So, get these vegetable ingredients (3 oz of onion, 1 oz of carrot) and 2 pieces of dried kelp, along with the chicken.
Put the prepared ingredients for the broth in a pot.
Pour 3 cups of water into the pot. Once the water starts to boil, cook it for about 3 minutes on high.
After 3 minutes, discard the kelp and continue cooking the rest for about 15 minutes on high.
After 15 minutes, take out the cooked chicken, carrot, and onion. We are going to chop them for this baby food, so let them cool down little bit.
Strain out the broth; you will get about 2 cups. You will be surprised by the good flavor that this savory broth gives to the baby food without any other seasoning ingredients.
Finely chop about ⅔ cup of Zucchini (3 oz), and then chop 1 cup of the cooked chicken, ⅓ cup of carrot, and ¼ cup of an onion in the same way.
Each child’s growth speed is different, so how finely you chop these depends on how well your child can chew. Adjust the size of these ingredients to suit your child.
Obtain 1½ cups of cooked rice. There is another method using uncooked rice to make the baby food, but to save the cooking time and make it easier, I recommend trying this method using cooked rice. The flavor and texture is also graet.
In a larger pot, add the cooked rice, chicken, and all the vegetables.
Pour 2 cups of the chicken broth we saved earlier into the pot. Mix everything well and cook it on high.
Once it starts to boil, reduce the temperature to medium- high and cook for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, you will get this colorful and tasty baby food for your child.
This recipe made about 6 servings. I like to keep the baby food in single-serving-sized jars. After your baby eats the baby food from this kind of jar, save the jars and use for them for this. When you remove the labels from the jars, there is this residual sticky stuff.
I used orange essential oil to remove it. It’s nice and clean now. Wash your jars
real good and dry them out.
Put some of the baby food in each jar. If you make different kinds of baby food on different days, it is nice to write a date on the jar, so use this kind of tape and write down the date. I will just write 12/25, Christmas, because I cannot wait for it. lol You can take remove this tape later for reuse.
I put the baby food jars in organizing containers like this and keep them in the freezer. Btw, I love this container that I got from Amazon. I use these for my lunch box supplies, kitchen drawers, and kid’s desk, everywhere… If you are looking for nice organizing containers for your drawers. I highly recommend these. I will add the link below this video for you.
Go back to the recipe, whenever you are ready to feed the food to your baby, take a jar from the freezer, and put it in a small saucepan. Fill the sauce pan half full of water and boil it. Once the water starts to boil, I cook it for about 5 minutes on high and then turn off the heat.
Then let the baby food finish warming up in the hot water for about 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, you will see the frozen baby food thawed to just the right temperature to feed your baby.
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