Why didn't she breastfeed the baby? Seems like it would have helped the starvation issue. Maybe I don't remember it from season 1. It's been awhile.
shareI'm not sure if it's related but I remember Wiley having issues because of the tumor, which I believe was effecting her in season 1. I don't know if a tumor would effect the production of milk, but I figured I would throw it out there.
shareThe reason for this is because when the baby was first born, she wasn't really maternal lol.. She was disinterested in the baby! A mother generally starts producing milk 3-4 days after a natural birth.. From there pretty much you need to keep stimulating the breasts to continue producing milk, Wiley didn't do this, her boobies would have dried up with in a week.. She'd have needed to breastfeed from the start but she didn't, they put the baby on formula which would have screwed with her milk production
Also starvation can affect the breastmilk but I don't think that's the case, but yeah.. That's why she couldn't breastfeed
The Amish lady had recently lost a baby in birth, hence why she could breastfeed the baby.. She would have been lactating regardless
Once Wiley decided to care for that baby I doubt she would not have been able to lactate. Also, the Amish woman lost her child which means production would also have stopped. There are plenty of women who can still lactate years after stopping, no way do I believe that the cries and fears of starvation for her son wouldn't have started the flow again.
shareI agree. His hunger would have definitely stimulated lactation. She would not have dried up in a week either. It took me maybe a month to dry up. And that was after my 1.5yo stopped.
sharethe Amish woman lost her child which means production would also have stopped.
They wanted to drum up drama. There is no good reason.
shareI think they didn't want to keep the baby in the show except as a minor plot device.
shareI agree that it most likely had no deeper meaning other than to create a filler storyline. While S2 was much better, some of the bad things spilled over from S1. One of those negatives being, subplots written in with no proper thought or idea to advance the story along - other than to create some unnecessary drama and fill script pages.
Think about it - what would have occurred had that entire scenario been left on the cutting room floor? Nothing. That is when you know something is needless in a story. Better writers of better shows would recognize this flaw before they even began typing the words. Wiley needed to be late to the extraction. The baby (and her love for her son) had to be a main focal point moving forward. But to make it what they did (and how they went about it) was unrequired.
They are also low on food which would also have screwed up Wileys body and her milk would have dried up anyway. And some mothers are just not able to produce enough milk to feed their babies. This happened to my cousin with all of her babies.
shareSome women can't.
Some do not want to.
Also, everyone was hungry: that would affect lactation.
This really isn't a plot hole IMO.
Yeh this is the thing that's annoying me the most. You literally have a town running on empty, and you're wasting time and precious resources on something you can literally make yourself. Even if its hard/painful/doesn't come natural etc, in those DIRE circumstances, wouldn't you persist with it? Even pump whenever necessary/possible to keep a stockpile, even for other kids... Seriously throughout this whole town not one breast pump has been found? lol...
Just annoying.
Riddle wrapped inside an enigma, wrapped inside a taco.
Most women produce colostrum the first few days after having a baby and then, as the baby begins to nurse, you will produce milk. Being unmotherly and wanting to give Jason up at first, Wiley never had the chance to move from colostrum to milk. She eventually dried up. Some women dry up faster than others. I didn't nurse my son and completely dried up in about 2 weeks. I've known other women who dried up much faster and some much slower. It all depends on what you are doing to help dry yourself up, as well as some other factors.
Another possibility is that Wiley's milk never came in. Two is my good friends' milk never came in. One of them was planning to formula feed from the beginning, so there wasn't any baby stimulation anyway. My other friend attempted to nurse, and even with stimulation from the baby, she never produced any milk. Milk production can also be affected by diet, nutrition, and medical issues. Therefore, the possibility of Wiley producing milk at all was slim due to the poor nutrition in Pretty Lake and her tumor.
The Amish girl, Helen, literally lost her baby in child birth a day or two before Wiley took Jason to her. That wouldn't have been long enough for her to have dried up and that's why she was still producing milk and was able to nurse Jason.
That's funny. I was just thinking the same thing. I almost never go to message boards to talk about things, but in this case I had to. From what I understand, "Between" is getting terrible reviews, and I don't understand why. Sure it's not the greatest show ever made, its certainly no "Stranger Things", but I think it's pretty good. I'm pretty picky when it comes to television shows, and for whatever reason, "Between" caught my attention and held it. I think it's because I have a soft spot for fictional survival situations. I am currently on season 2, episode 3 "Hope", and as I mentioned, I do really like this show, but I have a couple gripes with it. First of all, I don't understand why Wiley doesn't just breast feed baby Jason. That would seem to solve that problem completely. It seems like the writers kind of phoned that one in :-D . And my second gripe, (and perhaps they solve this problem in the next 3 episodes, but I doubt it) is A) There has to be a greenhouse somewhere in that town, it's a rural town for Christ sake, that would have been one of the first things I would have looked for if I were in that situation. And B) In the very unlikely scenario that there was not a greenhouse in Pretty Lake, then why hasn't someone built one? It just seems to me that (***!!!SPOILER ALERT!!!***) since Gord executed all of their cows, he could easily convert the livestock barn into a greenhouse, use one or more of the dozens of abandoned homes / garages / domiciles as a greenhouse or just outright build one out of the scrap from previously mentioned homes / garages / domiciles. I don't know why I'm complaining, as i said, I do really like the show, I guess I get caught up in shows like this pertaining to survivalist situations, because I consider myself pretty rehearsed in the survivalist aspect of life. I guess I was hoping one or more of the show's writers reads my post on here (fat chance) and ups their game, or calls me to be a writer for the show ;-) (hint, hint. Find me on Facebook, writing and employment people :-)... You can find me as "Cryptic Josh" from Erie PA {fat chance again}) At any rate, besides what I mentioned, keep up the good work, and I'm looking forward to season 3!!! (P.S. Don't take my criticism to hard, writers that will never read this. The continuity staff from AMC's "The Walking Dead" seem to think that zombies know how to mow lawns religiously.) Lol. Ciao!
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I personally think this show is reflecting how poorly today's kids would handle a situation like this. 30 years ago, kids would have had more street smarts and survival skills. Now that electronics run their lives, they'd be completely lost and not know how to cope.
Actually it would have been Lord Of The Flies 30 years ago. Or 50 years ago. Or 100.
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