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As your baby grows inside you, your abdomen grows as well; your centre of gravity moves forward and you may find yourself leaning back to compensate. This puts stress on your lower back, and is one of the many factors that can lead to back pain. Carrying extra weight around your middle puts further pressure on your back muscles, especially if your abdominal muscles were a thinset little weak to begin with. Even pain with a purpose hurts. But without defeating the purpose, you can conquer or, at least, manage the pain and discomfort. Here are some five common concerns and suggestions to ease back pain.Concern 1"My back pain is terrible. I'm worried I won't be able to stand up at all by the last trimester". Stand TallPerfect posture can go a long way toward easing back pain. Try to keep your centre of gravity in your spine and pelvis rather than out in your belly. Stand erect and straight with your shoulders pulled back. Slouching can precipitate or worsen the backac...

The river rippled calmly in front of us, but we could hear the thunder of the rapids ahead. "Everybody dowwwn!" our guide bellowed in his thick accent, a command to pull our paddles from the water and crouch onto the floor of our rubber raft. No way we would stay upright on these rapids, I feared, thankful for the helmet strapped to my head. When I could finally see the swirling current, tumbling and slamming into boulders just ahead, I took a deep breath. Waves of warm water washed over us. Our boat spun and ricocheted, sending us twirling between the tall pines and lush mountain jungle. I couldn't help but blurt out a squeal. This was my kind of Mexico vacation. I had always been tempted to try the popular seaside destinations that we northerners escape to each winter. Every time Facebook friends posted a palm-tree-laden photo on furniture a sub-zero day at home in Minneapolis where I live, I buried my jealousy under a down blanket. But I remembered how I get bored...

Standing at a lectern before reporters Thursday, Carlos Acevedo, the head of Puerto Rico's emergency management agency, made an admission. Before Hurricane Maria, he said, the island's government did not take updates to its hurricane response plans seriously. "Before Maria, updating our plans was very easy," Acevedo said. "We would take the first and last pages, remove them, replace them with new pages, sign them, and there was the new plan." It came as no surprise then, Acevedo said, that the government's outdated and recycled plan – written for a Category 1 hurricane – was wholly inadequate to guide its response after Hurricane Maria's category 4 winds devastated the island last September. "I'm very honest," Acevedo went on. "The plan did not say what we would do if the communication systems failed. " Which they did, thwarting the government's ability to coordinate a response. The reason he'd called reporters to the...

As your baby grows inside you, your abdomen grows as well; your centre of gravity moves forward and you may find yourself leaning back to compensate. This puts stress on your lower back, and is one of the many factors that can lead to back pain. Carrying extra weight around your middle puts further pressure on your back muscles, especially if your abdominal muscles were a thinset little weak to begin with. Even pain with a purpose hurts. But without defeating the purpose, you can conquer or, at least, manage the pain and discomfort. Here are some five common concerns and suggestions to ease back pain.Concern 1"My back pain is terrible. I'm worried I won't be able to stand up at all by the last trimester". Stand TallPerfect posture can go a long way toward easing back pain. Try to keep your centre of gravity in your spine and pelvis rather than out in your belly. Stand erect and straight with your shoulders pulled back. Slouching can precipitate or worsen the backac...

Standing at a lectern before reporters Thursday, Carlos Acevedo, the head of Puerto Rico's emergency management agency, made an admission. Before Hurricane Maria, he said, the island's government did not take updates to its hurricane response plans seriously. "Before Maria, updating our plans was very easy," Acevedo said. "We would take the first and last pages, remove them, replace them with new pages, sign them, and there was the new plan." It came as no surprise then, Acevedo said, that the government's outdated and recycled plan – written for a Category 1 hurricane – was wholly inadequate to guide its response after Hurricane Maria's category 4 winds devastated the island last September. "I'm very honest," Acevedo went on. "The plan did not say what we would do if the communication systems failed. " Which they did, thwarting the government's ability to coordinate a response. The reason he'd called reporters to the...

The client knew exactly what she wanted: not too many floors. High ceilings. Lots of light. And a south-facing garden. Her husband had two requests: a small hammam and a swimming pool in the garden.It was a tall order for a family home in central London, but eventually they found it—an unassuming but generously proportioned Arts and Crafts property nestled on a quiet street in Chelsea, the once-bohemian enclave turned posh residential district. After glimpsing the overgrown gardens—now planted with climbing honeysuckles, hedges, maples, and magnolias by the Natural Gardening Company—and a yard just big enough to carve out a narrow, stone-lined lap pool, they were sold."When you look out the window, you almost feel like you're in the country," says the wife of theatre the home she shares with her husband—they're both globe-trotting businesspeople—and two teenage daughters. "We woke up one morning and found ducks swimming in the pool. "That feeling of the co...

My Story of Acne Through My Life I got complimented on my skin today. It completely took me by surpise because I have never been complimented on my skin. I have been complimented on my eyes, ambition, and style. But, never my skin. Since I was in 7th grade, I have been plagued with those house bumps on my face. They take on many forms and go by many names including pimples, zits, boils, spots, breakout, cysts, and my least favorite: acne vulgaris (the name just sounds horrible!). I have been through many dermatologists, each one striking both my ego and my wallet. It was humiliating sitting in front of each one as they crinkled up their nose studying the one thing I spent 30 minutes that morning trying to hide. They would prescribe it all: antibiotics, face creams, gels, Accutane, and soaps. I dreaded my follow up appointments even worse than my initial appointments. I knew they would be disappointed in my progress and make a snide remark doubting I was following their regimen,...