I'm normally a total news junkie but have been strangely detached from it all this time around, cocooned in pregnancy hormones, flattened by tiredness and feeling my energy generally turning inward when I have spare time, not outward. And far from watchign Newsnight, I'm usually crashed out by 9.45pm on the sofa.
But there is so much talk about how mums are crucial to deciding who wins the election, with all the leaders making efforts to reach out to the mumsnet voter. Plus the economy and prospective public services cuts could affect all sorts of things from the NHS and midwife care to Sure Start, family tax credits, schools, jobs, interest rates, VAT rises ... so in some ways, I feel that as a woman starting a family, I should care more than ever before about politics.
Therefore I thought I woudl start a thread to see how you all felt about specifically being pregnant during the general election. And that's why this is in the pregnancy section, rather than elsewhere on MN.