Everything's okay mum! Unborn baby gives reassuring thumbs up in the womb

A mother-to-be who was worried about her unborn baby was reassured when she had a hospital scan.

For the scan photographs showed an entirely normal baby who was also captured giving the thumbs up.

Expectant mother Donna Sayer, 29, had two scans at a hospital in Canterbury Kent several weeks after becoming pregnant in August.

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Everything's okay: Donna Sayer was surprised to see her unborn baby giving a thumbs up

She and her partner Simon Biscoe became concerned when it appeared their baby's head seemed to be elongated and too small.

But the pair were delighted when they went for their third scan at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital.

It showed their baby's head had reached a normal size and there were no medical concerns.

But Ms Sayer and the nurses laughed when they realised the baby was giving the thumbs-up.

Miss Sayer from Whitstable said she and her partner were relieved to see their baby was developing normally

Ms Sayer, who is food and beverage manager at Kent County Cricket Club, said today: 'After checking everything was okay. the nurse said she would try to get some more photographs of the baby.

'But it was hiding and all she could get was its hand giving the thumbs-up as if it was trying to tell us that everything was fine. The image was quite clear.

'We had both been concerned during the two weeks before I had the third scan, but everything is okay. We have shown the photograph to family and friends. They all think it is quite apt.'

Donna, from Whitstable, who is due to give birth in May, added: 'Everyone who has seen the picture has been astonished.'

Fay Smith, an ultrasound practitioner at William Harvey Hospital in nearby Ashford, said: 'You see them sucking their thumbs, doing rude gestures, and, in later scans, blinking.

'I often laugh with parents-to-be when babies have got their hands over their private parts!'