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I've started writing on Helium because I'm currently at home caring for my baby son, and I'd like to develop a writing career so that I can work flexibly from home.

Until recently I worked as a researcher for a web design agency in London, and before that in various research roles for the Computer Laboratory and the Management School at the University of Cambridge. I've also worked for Intel Research Cambridge and for two technology start-up companies: Cambridge Cognition and Sibelius Software. I have a bachelor's degree in philosophy and a PhD in developmental psychology, both from the University of Cambridge. Because of my research background, I am experienced in writing formal reports and academic papers, but I am new to writing shorter more journalistic articles.

At the moment, I'm interested in trying my hand at writing about anything at all that I know about, and that is of general interest. I don't have much time to research my articles, so I'm just practising improving my technique. I hope to write longer and more informative articles in due course when I have more time.

Relationships & Family > Grief & Loss Death before life: Thoughts on miscarriage

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To suffer a miscarriage is to suffer a very common fate, and yet a mysterious one. It is mysterious partly in the purely medical sense that the particular reasons why a given pregnancy self-terminates are usually unknown. But more than this, it is mysterious because people don't generally talk about it. And as one of the other writers on this topic has pointed out, there's a sense in which a miscarriage is always a private loss for the woman concerned, and maybe that's part of the mystery too. I had a miscarriage in the early hours of New Year's Day this year, at precisely 12 weeks gestati...

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