It should have the happiest period of Sarah Stenton’s life: welcoming two baby daughters within 14 months and looking ahead to a lifetime of motherhood, memories and joy.
But quietly developing during her pregnancies was a varicose vein on the outer calf of her left leg – a condition that would go on to devastate her confidence for 20 years.
Ms Stenton, from Matlock, Derbyshire, first noticed the vein shortly after the birth of her first daughter, Ella, when she was just 29.
Varicose veins – swollen, twisted veins that bulge beneath the skin – are commonly found during and after pregnancy due
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