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As she was baptized a Catholic, she was saved at the font. As soon as an infant is baptized, his/her salvation is covered by blanket insurance until old enough to accept personal responsibility.
Read Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles for a story of an unbaptized infant dying and being secretly buried in the churchyard at night, not being technically qualified for admission to heaven due to an administrative error by the parson and grandparents.
I hope Bristol will be getting her youngster baptized early. You never know what will happen if the worst comes to the worst, so why play Russian roulette with the immortal future of your child?
There is certainly an argument to be made for baptism at conception, but practical difficulties over access have so far ruled this out, so pregnancy is regarded as a grace period.
