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Asking a woman about a pregnancy she hasn’t explicitly confirmed is an absolute no-no, but that’s just what happened to Emmerdale’s Isabel Hodgins this week.
Isabel and partner Adam Whitehead recently welcomed their beautiful baby to the world, a daughter named Georgie Grace, who was born on February 11.
Taking to Instagram, the two announced the birth with a reel, showing Isabel in the throes of labour, before cutting to an adorable black and white snap of her cuddling her brand new bundle of joy just a few weeks later.
Amid keeping fans up to date on her mothering journey, Isabel recently shared a further reel, detailing her return to the gym that was flooded with warm and supportive comments.
@sandrahicks839 commented: ‘Isabel, you are an amazing mum and mother, I think its wonderful that you want to do this, take your time, because this is your time now, lots of love from a big fan.’ @lorrainewilson7874 added: ‘Go mama. Slow and steady though. Your body grew a wee human and birthed her’
@janette.adair.31 said: ‘Go girl go…you are smashing motherhood, take care small steps’, while @ajd2701 wrote: ‘You look fab, I remember having my son and I decided I wanted to be fit and healthy so I could play football with him, run around and play all the silly games he wanted to’.
Fellow soap stars, Catherine Tyldesley and Brooke Vincent also commented, posting: ‘Go on momma!’ and ‘go on my love’ respectively.
Not all of her interactions were as soft and sweet, though.
Isabel took to Instagram and posted a selfie to her story, captioned: ‘Had someone come up to me in the gym today and ask when I’m due…slightly awkward for both of us when I said I had her 7 weeks ago.’
Big no-no.
Fans, as ever, flooded the post to support the new mum: ‘Happened to me! Awkward! But I smiled! It was there for a very good reason’, said one, with another adding: ‘Oh my goodness I’ve done that!! I was very embarrassed.’
Isabel shares post-partum recovery setback
Isabel has been incredibly open on social media about her post-partum recovery, though fans did panic when she shared a particular image on her story.
‘Today didn’t go to plan. There were tears…and a fear hours spent at urgent care getting checked over. The staff were so lovely and caring. There are some things they don’t tell you about postpartum recovery,’ she captioned an image of her looking sad with her head snuggled into Adam’s shoulder.
She later updated her followers, with a picture of her holding a prescription bag, captioning it: ‘Thank you so much for all the lovely comments and messages. The medication is definitely starting to take effect and I’m feeling much better.’
She shared a further update on her Facebook, writing: ‘Thank you so much for all the lovely comments and messages. They honestly meant so much. Postpartum recovery was going well… until now, but taking it one day at a time.’
Prior to her health issue, Isabel uploaded an incredibly sweet reel to her Instagram, with clips of a typical morning with Georgie, captioned: ‘Mornings with my little miss’.
Isabel’s co-stars were quick to fill the comment section with a flurry of lovely comments, with Danny Miller, who plays brother in law, Aaron Dingle, typing: ‘Oh hello!!’, to which Isabel replied with a slew of laughing face emojis.
Lawrence Robb, who plays Mackenzie Boyd, wrote: ‘Song choice’, with clapping emojis, while Laura Norton, who plays Kerry Wyatt added: ‘Unreal’.
Emmerdale viewers recently saw Isabel’s alter-ego, Victoria Sugden, decide to head to Portugal for a fresh start with step-mum, Diane Sugden (Elizabeth Estensen) and son Harry, after the guilt of killing half-brother, John Sugden (Oliver Farnworth), and blackmail from Joe Tate (Ned Porteous), saw her give up her share of farmland to him.