Dee-Dee Bailey is set to experience one of the most traumatic days of her life on Coronation Street, and the action will leave viewers and the character herself reeling. What begins as a tough test soon disintegrates into something much more traumatic, shocking everyone.
A Troubling Pregnancy Turns Shocking
Dee-Dee found out she was pregnant in the autumn. But the news was not welcome. With abuser Joel Deering as the father, Dee-Dee was adamant from the beginning that she didn’t want to have the baby and had arranged for a termination. Her plans were dramatically changed when Frankie, son of Lauren Bolton, became seriously ill. Physicians indicated that Dee-Dee‘s unborn baby might be a match for the stem cell transplant he so urgently required.
Spurred by the urgency of the moment, Dee-Dee decided to proceed with the pregnancy, intending to give the baby up for adoption upon birth. However, the situation took another turn when Lauren later told her that another donor had been located for Frankie. Dee-Dee has grappled with the change emotionally.
Actress Channique Sterling-Brown clarified that Dee-Dee had attempted to stay calm, but the whole scheme had fallen apart for her. She confirmed it seemed the right thing to do at the time and made sense under the circumstances. Later, when Dee-Dee visits Lauren and Frankie, she starts experiencing really bad pain.
A midwife tells her she should go back home and bed down. Nevertheless, the agony intensifies at a rapid rate, and the waters break. Dee-Dee returns to the hospital, where doctors deliver a diagnosis of preeclampsia. Dee-Dee is informed that the baby must be expelled right away. Channique said that the situation had quickly turned into a crisis before she knew it.
Coronation Street: Emergency Hysterectomy Rocks Dee-Dee’s World
Upon the baby‘s delivery, things turn even more tragic. Dee-Dee informs her father, Ed Bailey, that she needs an emergency hysterectomy. The information is devastating, and Ed presses his daughter to rethink her decision to give up the baby for adoption.
Channique opined that what Dee-Dee processes in a short period of 24 hours is well nigh impossible. She added that even though Dee-Dee is rational in her acceptance that she can no longer give birth, it doesn’t change how she feels toward the child’s parents or what the child signifies. The actress explained that Dee-Dee feels it would be wrong for the baby to keep it just because she can‘t have any more children. It would be, in her words, a “safety baby.” That makes Dee-Dee very uncomfortable, and she doesn‘t want to make an emotionally motivated decision that may end up hurting the child.
When she returns home from the hospital, Dee-Dee makes a secret of it from Sarah Platt and Alya Nazir. She breaks the news that her condition could have been avoided and blames the medical staff for gross negligence. Unwavering in her conviction, she opens up about making an official complaint. Whether or not the future for Dee-Dee and the baby is yet to be revealed—only the upcoming Coronation Street spoilers can reveal. Until then, stay tuned to Soap Opera Daily for more soap updates.
