When Donna, 29, and partner Simon Biscoe went for a routine 20-week scan they were told its head was unusually elongated and too small.
So they returned to Canterbury Hospital two weeks later to check its development.
The new images showed all was well but they got a surprise message.
Donna, from Whitstable, Kent, said: '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 and they all think it is quite apt.'
The ultrasound practitioner for East Kent, Fay Smith, said instances of babies giving hand signals like this were 'not that unusual'.
'You see them sucking their thumbs, doing rude gestures, and in later scans blinking,' she said.
'I often laugh with parents-to-be when babies have got their hands over their private parts.'
The baby is due on May 29.
thats amazing, i just had a private ultrasound scan at a local clinic and my baby boy was doing the same. My nurse said it common form babies to move the fingers a lot but she has never seen a thumbs up before.
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