What I Didn't Know

I'm still reading the book "Your Pregnancy & Newborn Journey" while reading throughout the book I read about "Varicose Veins and hemorrhoids" They are caused when in normal veins, valves in the vein keep blood moving forward toward the heart. With varicose veins, the valves do not function properly, allowing blood to remain in the vein. Pooling of blood in a vein causes it to enlarge. I never knew what it was so one of my teachers had told me in order to stop this from happening to me or anyone else I would have to "Avoid standing or sitting for a long period of time" and "Avoid wearing tight clothing from waist on down". Reading about these kind of things made me panic a little because I would never have known anything about it if I never read this book. To me its like taking chances to go through the pregnancy and not even know what comes along with that decision. Whether it would be to have heart burns or varicose veins which scares the life out of me. Learning what to do and not do to prevent it from not occurring on my body was worth it because I wouldn't want to walk around with legs that have varicose growing on them and having to deal with how my body will look like after my pregnancy.