Amanda Foster, 33, had a habit before every ultrasound: she closed her eyes and repeated the same plea. “Please, God, keep your hand on my baby.”
This Kentucky mother already knew the pain of losing a pregnancy. Her first child died from Potter syndrome when she was just 17.
Now she was expecting Kyler, a baby with a congenital heart defect, and the fear returned every time she reclined on the examination table at the Women’s Care of Lake Cumberland center in Somerset.
During one of those ultrasounds, her daughter Bailey came over to look at the screen and pointed out something Amanda had not noticed. “Whose hand is that?” the girl asked. Above the fetus’s head, a shape was clearly visible. “
Amanda burst into tears right there and later shared the image on Facebook along with a verse from Isaiah. There is no medical explanation confirming what that figure is, but to her the answer was clear: “God’s hand watching over her child”.