Daisy’s Parents
If we want to connect Daisy’s birth parents to someone we know in The Handmaid’s Tale, the only honest way this would work is to make the baby Lawrence’s.
It couldn’t be his wife Elinor’s baby - as she explicitly stated that she and Lawrence never had kids together.
So I suppose Lawrence could’ve gotten his first handmaid pregnant and then had some part in getting the baby out of Gilead - and the handmaid died in the process.
Remember in The Handmaid’s Tale, some of the Commanders recounted how they ensured couples were completing the ceremony when Gilead was brand new? So, if a baby were conceived then, that would make TV show Daisy about the right age.
Lawrence was always so squirrelly and Elinor was so broken - having conceived a child through rape would fit right in with the characters’ arcs.
It might also explain further why Lawrence was willing to help babies and mothers. And, when he helped Emily smuggle out Nichole, he was making jokes and was rather calm in a way that suggested he had done this before.
And I can also see why such a child would not have come up in earlier conversations. Why would Lawrence trust anyone with that knowledge? Why would a fellow Commander want to remind him of his “loss?” By the time we meet Lawrence, the baby would’ve disappeared at least four years earlier.
June may have found out about Daisy’s story after Lawrence’s death and then took a special interest in her. She could have easily gotten all the details about Daisy’s arrival in Gilead from Melanie and Neil. There’s a four year gap between shows, so June would’ve had plenty of time to bond with the couple and get all that info. Unlike Nick, Lawrence did redeem himself in the end, even though his courage would be lost to history. Watching out for Daisy might be a way to honor Lawrence.