Dee-Dee Bailey (Channique Sterling-Brown) faces a terrifying ordeal in upcoming Coronation Street scenes when she gives birth to her baby.
The solicitor found out she was pregnant last Autumn, but it wasn’t good news.
With the baby’s father being abuser Joel Deering, Dee-Dee knew she didn’t want to keep it, and decided to have a termination. However, when Lauren Bolton’s (Cait Fitton) son Frankie fell ill, Dee-Dee’s baby was likely to be a match for the stem cell transplant he needed.
Because of this, Dee-Dee decided to go through with the pregnancy and give the baby up for adoption once it was born.
However, her plan was thrown into disarray when Lauren revealed that they’d found another donor, and Frankie wouldn’t need to wait for the birth of his half-sibling – something that Dee-Dee has struggled to come to terms with.
‘I think she’s trying to keep a lid on it, but the bottom has fallen out of the plan, as far as she’s concerned,’ actress Channique Sterling-Brown explained.
‘I think it was the right decision for her in the moment and it felt like the logical thing.
In upcoming scenes, Dee-Dee suffers severe pains while visiting Lauren and Frankie, but she is told by a midwife to go home and rest.
Things escalate when her waters break, and she is quick to return to the hospital, where a doctor takes her blood pressure and informs her that she has pre-eclampsia, and the baby will need to be delivered immediately.
‘Basically, everything is all systems go in terms of getting the baby out as quickly and safely as possible, but I think it’s really frightening how quickly that develops, and if someone had intervened a bit sooner and picked up on these symptoms sooner, it wouldn’t need to be such drastic measures that are taken,’ Channique explained.
Following the baby’s birth, things take a shocking turn as Dee-Dee reveals to Ed Bailey (Trevor Michael Georges) that she had to undergo an emergency hysterectomy.
Upon hearing this, Ed urges her to think carefully about whether she still wants to give up the baby for adoption.
‘I don’t think there’s any way anyone could process everything that happens during that 24-hour period for her,’ Channique said.
‘In her mind, she’s still very logical about the fact that she can’t carry any more children, doesn’t mean her feelings change about the paternity of this baby and what this baby potentially represents.
‘I think she knows that and she feels it would be really unfair and unkind to the baby… It’s like it would be a “safety baby”, so to speak. I think that’s how she’s looking at it.’
When she returns home from the hospital, Dee-Dee tells Sarah Platt (Tina O’Brien) and Alya Nazir (Sair Khan) that her condition was avoidable and because it was the result of gross negligence, she intends to make an official complaint.
𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 “𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒑𝒂𝒈𝒆 & 𝑾𝒆𝒃𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒆: 𝒇𝙞𝒍𝙢𝒔𝙥𝒐𝙞𝒍𝙚𝒓𝙨.𝙞𝒏𝙛𝒐” 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧-𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐞𝐬.
