There are so many issues with how the birth and newborn are portrayed in Squid Game Season 3 that it’s almost laughably unrealistic.
First off - childbirth doesn’t happen in 15 minutes. Even just the pushing phase can take hours, especially for a first-time mother, but here it’s rushed with barely any physical strain, and suspiciously clean. No blood, no amniotic fluid, no vernix, barely any screaming, nothing.
Then there’s the newborn care. Newborns need to feed and have their diapers changed every 2-3 hours. That first night? The baby would’ve been crying constantly. There’s no way Geum-ja could have ended herself quietly without the others noticing, nor could everyone else have slept, not unless everyone just forgot newborns exist. Diapers? Clean water? Clean clothes? We never see the guards provide these things during the first night. If they didn’t, the baby would already be dealing with dehydration, hunger, and serious skin irritation or infection from waste exposure. Speaking of infection - that baby was born in a filthy, non-sterile environment, and no one visibly cleans it. No post-birth umbilical cord care, no swaddling hygiene, they are kept in Gi-hun's and Jun-hee's filthy clothes. An infection is basically guaranteed.
And then there’s the handling. When Gi-hun carries the baby during the Jumping Rope game, he’s jolting, jumping, staggering around, with zero neck or head support (he holds onto the baby, but there is no actual neck support). The baby’s crying, loudly, which while was probably added for drama, realistically would mean serious distress from the jostling. And that kind of movement for a 24-hour-old newborn? That’s prime risk for shaken baby syndrome, intracranial injury, or worse.
Later, after Jun-hee, who’s feeding the baby? Yeah we see the guard feed the baby once during the great dinner scene, but that is the only time the baby is fed. They need food in every few hours. Gi-hun can’t produce milk. The guards don’t seem to step in afterwards, and we don’t see any bottle, formula, or feeding method. Without regular nourishment, the baby wouldn’t survive more than a day.
Then we get to the Sky Squid Game segments, where the baby is still being carried into high-risk physical challenges, with more swaying, more reckless movement, more danger. By all logic, the baby should not have survived even a day, let alone endured multiple games, without severe injury or death.
From a Reddit user's thread, ShyLittleBean12
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