Pregnancy is something all the Handmaids long to be yet, pregnancy in Gilead is awfully scarce. Therefore, when one of the Handmaids become pregnant everyone knowns about it. Once a woman is pregnant extra precautions are taken to ensure the pregnancy goes through all the way. The pregnant Handmaid is then released of all her daily tasks to eliminate any means of a terminated pregnancy. She is not even compelled to go on her daily walk however, one day when Offred and another Handmaid are out shopping two women walk in and Offred notices that, “One of them is vastly pregnant; her belly, under her loose garment, swells triumphantly. There is a shifting in the room , a murmur, an escape of breath; despite ourselves we turn our heads, blatantly,
