Moms trading bedroom routines could be a good thing for some

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These moms traded bedtime routines for clubbing and dance floor — and found a new kind of self-care
It was Saturday night, and Barbara Quinn was twirling in a fringed dress as she snapped a selfie by the bar. Her phone’s background was a shot of her two sons curled up together.

“I was at a game Friday night, and then a soccer game at 8 a.m. on Saturday, then another football game,” said Quinn, who lives in Topsfield, Mass., as “Stand Up” by Ludacris boomed in the background. She’d come out to the Sinclair, a gastropub and music venue in Cambridge’s Harvard Square, to dance with a group of friends and enjoy “just being able to be free to do whatever you want with no judgment.”

By 8 p.m., the Sinclair’s dance floor was full of women in comfortable shoes dropping it like it’s hot. While there was an occasional stiletto to be seen, the shoe of choice was primarily low sneakers. Some wore sequined tops or dresses, many over pants, or the nightclub favorite of the aughts, the “going-out top.” An occasional husband or spouse could be spotted by the bar, but the crowd was overwhelmingly female — mothers, to be more specific.