Though they’re now parents to two happy and healthy daughters, Chezzi and Grant Denyer have revealed that getting there wasn’t quite the smooth sailing process they had imagined.
Speaking to Stacey June and Kristie Mercer on a recent episode of The Thinkergirls podcast, Chezzi, a TV producer, said that fear struck seven months into her pregnancy with the couple’s youngest child, Scout.
“It was really strange and I don’t really know how to broach this, it’s just really personal,” Chezzi told June and Mercer. “I’m having a shower, struggling to shave my very swollen legs, when I feel at the top of my legs this lumpy grossness that feels like a swollen mozzie bite.”
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Oh you poor thing - I never had them (thank goodness) but one of my friends had them so bad she used to have to hold them when she pooed on the toilet, she was so scared to give birth vaginally but she said the nurses were fantastic.
Woah woah, is it really this bad?! Im 25 weeks pregnant, I thought varicose veins were the ones you can see under the skin?!
Don't worry Banshee, it doesn't always happen, it only happened in my second pregnancy. It's when the veins get really swollen they pop out.
Varicose veins are the lumpy raised ones and spider veins are the reddish blue ones just under the skin.
I had a vaginal varicose vein pop up in my second and third pregnancy but not my first. Not very common first time around so you might be ok.
Thanks guys for putting me at ease, hopefully being my first I will be okay!