“You could hear that baby’s heartbeat strong and steady. Really, that’s her personality today, a strong, vibrant little girl. And at that time, laying there, tears starting rolling down my face.”

That’s how Felicia Anderson of DeKalb County, Georgia, describes the effect that an ultrasound had on her 12 years ago, when she was addicted to crack cocaine and pregnant with her third child.

According to this CNN article, Anderson, who is now 44, vowed at that moment to get off of drugs for the sake of her baby. So she entered Mothers Making a Change, a year-long , 12-step-based outpatient drug and alcohol program in Atlanta.

Anderson remains drug-free today, and today the African-American mom runs a program to help the developmentally disabled, as well as taking care of her three daughters.

But her journey to this positive lifestyle free of the shackles of her crack addiction— and to an active faith in God — all started with her fateful decision to have an ultrasound taken of her unborn child.

As she listened to the heartbeat in her womb, Anderson recalled to CNN, “Something inside me — and I would say it’s the voice of God — saying, ‘You can do this.’ And laying there at that moment, I did say to myself, ‘I can do this. Let me try to do this.’ That was a turning point for me,” she said. “That baby that was born was born drug-free.”