u/marmaladybird

My 6 month old uses a feeder alongside spoon feeding purees and self-feeding finger foods. The feeder is like a teething toy with space for food like soft fruit or egg yolk, with holes or mesh at the top to let some food through.

Someone I know suggested it can cause problems with learning to eat, as it makes babies "lazy" with chewing as they suck the food out instead of chewing. My baby sort of gnaws on it like a teether, but I'd like some info which either proves or debunks that it causes issues with chewing. I know the purée pouches aren't recommended to use too often for similar reasons. Thanks

Finding out that Daisy becomes a plum/green from the trailers, she didn't get her period in Canada but did in Gilead. It seemed important for Rita that she didn't have her period, probably to be safer as a female spy and not end up being possibly raped either as a wife or handmaid.

One thing that stuck out to me in rewatching episode 3 is Daisy's dad comes home from getting groceries (when he jokes about her and Justin being a "we") and Daisy asks if he got the food she wanted and he says it's all junk. In Gilead she would have been eating organic "clean" food, so maybe this is why there's higher fertility in Gilead. Of course she could have been a late bloomer and would have gotten her period in Canada anyway, but it explains why so many teens in Gilead (at least the Commander's daughters) have their period compared to Daisy's class in Canada where only 1 girl did.

I also find it interesting that the lack of menstruation seems to have happened in one generation. We know Paula got her period, but doesn't have children. Daisy's mom asks about her going on birth control even though Daisy doesn't have her period. So of course getting your period doesn't mean you're fertile and vice versa, even though when a plum gets her first period she announces God has saved her from barrenness (Side note, I cannot imagine having to announce to the world as a teenager that I got my period, I'd be mortified)

My theory is that Gilead's ecofascism and forced childbearing is effective at raising fertility, but it requires so much murder, violence, and control that it's unsustainable. It raises the question, do the ends justify the means? I'd say absolutely not, but in THT, there's the episode with the Mexican delegation, where they still seem to consider trading with Gilead even after June tells them the truth about handmaids.