Marina Gomberg: A backyard family dance party has me thinking about my change of heart about parenthood

I was one of those people who knew they weren’t going to have children. I was never that big into babysitting, I didn’t have younger siblings or cousins running around, and generally speaking, I didn’t want to hang out with tiny, needy humans who couldn’t even wipe their own bums.

Kids are loud and messy, and they totally disregard social norms. How’s that supposed to be a good time?

But when I held my sister’s first kidlet to my chest the night she was born, my uterus started to twitch.