My experience of human pregnancy, while vicarious, has long associated pregnancy with uncomfortable body heat. This is both interesting and worrying to me, and so I was curious to read this new paper in Cell Reports: “Prolactin modulation of thermoregulatory circuits provides resilience to thermal challenge of pregnancy.” The title grabbed me (as a good title should), especially the phrase “resilience to thermal challenge of pregnancy.” I know that body temperature increases in early pregnancy, and I assumed it stays…
