Eventful Evangeline
Three stories in one - pregnancy, birth and the first year... Pregnancy They say that every pregnancy is different. But then again, "they" say a lot. In this instance, my instance, it rang true. Right out of the gate we knew that El was on the way because of the horrendous implantation pain that left me seeking help at the emergency room. With Evangeline... well. I had suspicions, but after the months of trying to conceive before I fell pregnant with El I had developed a loathing of home pregnancy tests. My cycle had been erratic, sometimes being a perfect 28 days for a few months and then being around 40 days. With the longer cycles I would often end up doing a test only for it to be negative and shortly thereafter have Mother Nature reiterate my status of not being pregnant. And so I got to the point of obstinately waiting for ol' Aunty Flo to visit for extended durations before purchasing any pee sticks. Then after El arrived, I went back onto birth c