Angie, I never realized about the miscarriages either -- I'm so sorry, that had to be terribly painful and difficult! But I know you are an amazing "mom" to your beloved dogs, and you are surely a caring woman with the kind of firm but loving leadership qualities that make a good mother. I've no doubt you would have been the fabbest mom ever.
Count me as another who never LOVED babies. I'm always happy to see them, coo over them a bit, and hold them for a moment, and then I'm happy to hand them back over to their families. My husband is amazing with children -- kids gravitate to him, and he gets down on the floor and plays with them. If circumstances had been different, we would have had children because I've always thought that he was the man I would actually *want* to have children with.
Many years ago, even before I met him, I already had very little desire to go through pregnancy and childbirth. I had already thought that adoption would be something I'd strongly consider. So by the time I met this divorced man with two children, I'd already gone through a lot of soul-searching around this stuff. As we dated and married, we occasionally discussed the possibility of adoption, but quite frankly, our lives and responsibilities were already full enough that we never felt like we needed more.