About 10 to 20 percent of known pregnancies end in miscarriages HANDOUT PHOTO John-Mark Walker and Meg Walker stand outside their house in Richmond in October 2020. (Courtesy of Lindsay Fauver) (Courtesy of Lindsay Fauver) Pooja Shah
Jan. 27, 2021
Nearly five years ago, when college sweethearts Meg Walker and her husband, John-Mark Walker, were 16 weeks pregnant, they learned that their baby had a neural tube defect. That meant his skull, and therefore his brain, wouldn’t develop properly. They lived with this prognosis for five months before Walker gave birth to a boy named Jacob on Feb. 9, 2016. The couple experienced seven “blissful” hours with Jacob before he passed away in Walker’s arms.