Coronation Street’s ‘nasty’ midwife’s identity ‘revealed’ – and it’s bad news for Dee-Dee
Coronation Street fans have ‘rumbled’ the true identity of the Dee-Dee Bailey’s midwife – and it’s not looking good.
As viewers will recall, Dee-Dee (Channique Sterling-Brown) gave birth to her baby on the ITV soap this week. Dee-Dee shares the child with evil Joel Deering (Calum Lill) who was killed off last year by Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton).
In Monday’s episode (March 30), Dee-Dee was urged to get checked at the maternity unit after suffering serious pains. However, while there she wasn’t taken seriously – despite her blood pressure being high – as the staff were rushed off their feet.
Sent home to rest, Dee-Dee enlisted the help of friend Alya Nazir (Sair Khan), who was adamant that the nurses shouldn’t have sent her home. Suddenly though, Dee-Dee’s waters broke and she was rushed to hospital with her family.
River Dee near Corwen
At the maternity unit, Dee-Dee was left without a bed – despite being in agony. Her father Ed (Trevor Michael Georges) attempted to get staff to help – only for a white midwife to make a patronising and micro-aggressive comment that “women like you [Dee-Dee] you are built for this”.
Ed was livid at the remark and managed to find a black midwife who quickly helped out. A doctor arrived and told Dee-Dee she had pre-eclampsia and had to give birth immediately.
After giving birth, all seemed well with the baby girl, however, Dee-Dee complained that she still felt very unwell – something that was dismissed by a white nurse.
The same staff member then attempted to persuade Dee-Dee to have skin-to-skin contact with her baby. But when Dee-Dee insisted she didn’t want to, the nurse called her aggressive.
However, when the rest of the Bailey family arrived to see Dee-Dee, things took a dramatic turn when she fell unconscious. It was then revealed that she was bleeding heavily – something she had already told the staff about.
Rushed in for an operation, Dee-Dee had suffered a haemorrhage after her symptoms were consistently ignored. Meanwhile, her loved ones waited in fear as she underwent surgery.
The shocking scenes are part of a new racial injustice storyline for Dee-Dee. However, fans are now certain that they ‘know’ the true identity of the rude midwife – and she is linked to a former cobbles villain.