Third trimester here and my lower back is screaming at me constantly. My usual sleeping position doesn't work anymore and I end up awake half the night trying to get comfortable. My husband feels bad but he's clueless about how to help lol. Any advice on how to sleep with lower back pain during pregnancy? The exhaustion is real and I still have 6 weeks to go.
Wednesday, May 6, 2026 5:20:34 AM
Pregnant and Uncomfortable
Oh wow, those last weeks can feel endless when sleep disappears. My sister swore by the “pillow fortress” method — one between the knees, one behind the back so she couldn’t roll flat, and a small one under the bump for support. Side sleeping usually takes pressure off the spine. I remember reading some practical tips here sleep position for spine support when she was struggling, and a few tweaks made a big difference. Her husband started helping set up the pillows every night, and she joked it became their bedtime engineering project. Hang in there, real rest is coming soon.
Two companies you definitely would not have expected to make skull watches have gotten into the game this year, as well. Louis Vuitton's Tambour Carpe Diem Minute Repeater is, if I'm not mistaken, the only skull watch in production in which the skull is actually animated – you activate the repeater and the jaw drops vintage grand seiko to reveal the words "carpe diem," which is a message diametrically opposed to the blunt reminder of mortality intended as the message of skull watches from earlier centuries.
Christie's is offering this Mickey Mouse watch in their current link online sale, running until the 25th of June. The estimate on this piece has been set at $3,000 to $5,000, and a bid of $2,200 has already been placed. Click here for more photos and the rest of the catalogue.
Starting as early as yesterday, reports started to come in. In Melbourne, the watches apparently sold out in under 10 minutes and the police were called due to heavy crowds. Cops also showed up in Singapore to handle link the many eager future MoonSwatchers. London had to call off its proceedings due to health and safety concerns. In Toronto, more than a thousand people lined up, stretching three city blocks, in the cold and the rain, just to get their paws on this BioCeramic chronograph.
At face value, this Gruen isn’t a special watch. But, just as it once connected my father with his parents, it has link since, in serendipitous fashion, helped to do the same for me. And, in return, it also allowed me to share my love of watches with my father. This lovely little Gruen changed the way I see watches, changed the way I think about sentimentality, nostalgia, and the ways that the bonds shared between parents and their children evolve over time.