Coronation Street has confirmed the outcome for baby Frankie amid his stem cell storyline after Dee-Dee Bailey’s trauma.

Last year, Dee-Dee decided to keep her baby that she conceived with villain Joel Deering, who died last year, agreeing to help Lauren Bolton, whose baby Frankie needed a stem cell transplant after being diagnosed with aplastic anaemia.

In scenes airing next Wednesday (April 2), Dee-Dee reassures Lauren that Frankie’s transplant will go successfully, which comes after Lauren found another donor and therefore wouldn’t need to wait for Dee-Dee’s baby.

However, as they speak, Dee-Dee is overcome by horrible labour pains, and despite this, she is initially sent home. However, her waters break at the flat, and upon returning to the hospital, she faces further delays. It is only when things get critical that she is taken into emergency surgery.

Dee-Dee later gives birth to her baby girl amid severe complications, undergoing a hysterectomy after suffering a big haemorrhage, and she later wonders whether her poor treatment was linked to her ethnicity.

Later on, following the birth of the baby girl, Lauren visits Dee-Dee and confirms that Frankie’s transplant has been a success.

However, she is taken aback by Dee-Dee’s reaction, unaware of the traumatic ordeal her friend has just been through.

Coronation Street has been working with Birthrights, Motivational Mums Club and Five X More on Dee-Dee’s storyline, which comes after an official report last October found that Black women are three times more likely to die than white women during childbirth.

Birthrights has also carried out an inquiry into racial injustice in maternity care.

Speaking recently about the storyline, Dee-Dee actor Channique Sterling-Brown told 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒑𝒂𝒈𝒆 & 𝑾𝒆𝒃𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒆: C𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬.𝙞𝒏𝙛𝒐

: “It’s felt like a huge responsibility to honour women who are affected by this, and also to honour our healthcare workers who are extremely overstretched, because there are elements of that at play which we hopefully sensitively address.”