"The discrepancy between its size and your own is almost unthinkable, and you feel like a clumsy giant, strangely torn between impulses of nurture and predation"

Weirdly, I hear this is actually how a number of new moms feel - very aware of "you know I could hurt/kill this little thing SO EASILY, just like THIS" - which really messes with their heads and does nothing at all good for the PPD...

scroob