The ache of seeing your baby in pain

Teething and eventual heartbreak

Leo has entered the teething stage of infancy and spent most of yesterday crying, his poor face twisted in pain. I still don’t know how to separate his suffering from my own. Maybe it’s because he lived in my body, but I feel physical discomfort when I hear him wailing. As I held him against me as he sobbed and shoved his hands in his mouth against his …