This sums it all up
I was reading a book review in the New York Times of Anne Enright’s Making Babies and this was priceless:
It’s actually not that easy to destroy your baby, Enright concludes, and she offers a perversely comforting thought for the worrywarts among us — usually we’re the ones who need protecting. “You must always check a silence,” she writes, “not because the baby might have choked, but because it is in the middle of destroying something, thoroughly and slowly, with great and secret pleasure. It is important to remember this.”