Bath Shower Home Design

It's the final countdown -- fast approaching single -digit weeks -- before you get to meet your baby and coo over those tiny fingers and toes. Unfortunately, tiny isn't the word that comes to mind these days. The homestretch can be, well, a stretch. Itchy bellies, achy backs, swollen ankles, hemorrhoids -- you name the annoyance, and some expectant mom probably feels it. The real remedy, of course, is childbirth. But since that option is still a bit premature, we asked an obstetrician, a midwife, and a family practitioner to share their best trade secrets for surviving the common aches and pains of the third trimester. Our experts: Owen Montgomery, MD, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia; Stephanie Lowell, a certified nurse midwife in Phoenix, Ariz.; and. Bruce Bagley, MD, a family-practice physician in Latham, N.Y., and former president of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Make sure to talk...

We did it! Our Home & Family Dream Bathroom Makeover is finished and we couldn’t more excited about our beautiful shower including tile from Emser, waterproofed and installed by Schlueter Systems, along with the shower accessories by American Standard, all encased with a shower door courtesy of Wardrobe and Bath and Armando’s Glass. We get to enjoy the American Standard toilet with easy clean and self-closing seat! And right next to it, our lighting sconces and mirrors, and the vanity set from Lamps Plus! Who couldn’t love our vanities and sinks from Ronbow? And what about those state of the art LED lighted faucets from Altmans? That Hy- lite Glass Block Window has added natural light and the comfort of knowing you have your privacy, while relaxing in your elegant stand-alone tub from American Standard! And ooh that Granicrete flooring; it was fit for Princess Diana and now it’s all Cristina’s! We love our new bathroom and we want to keep it looking beautiful for years ...

In our new series Pregnancy Diaries , we ask expecting women to jot down every pregnancy-related detail of their lives for a week. (Special thanks to New York mag and Refinery29 for the inspo.) Work-related conundrums, struggles with IVF, and a whole lot of nausea, ahead. For our eighth entry, we have a 33-year-old part-time publicist from Connecticut who’s 25 weeks along. She and her husband of almost eight years have a “spirited” two-and-a-half-year-old girl, and don’t know the sex of baby number two.  How long did it take you to conceive?  It took just a couple of months to conceive baby #2. My cycle has tended to fluctuate month-to-month since having my daughter, so it was a bit of a challenge to track accurately. We’ve been incredibly fortunate and have not experienced any fertility issues to-date. Any other details relevant to your pregnancy? Our daughter was born three weeks and one day early, and I gave birth less than three hours after my water broke. This is known as precipit...