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Stephanie Davis has announced she and partner Joe McKalroy are expecting their first child together, a baby boy due next year.
The former Hollyoaks and Corrie star, 31, who already shares seven-year-old son Caben with ex and former CBB star Jeremy McConnell, revealed her fertility journey had been a ‘rollercoaster’ after suffering a devastating miscarriage in 2021.
Stephanie explained the couple had been trying to conceive for two years and were even exploring IVF, before falling pregnant naturally.
Telling OK!: ‘I did the pregnancy test at my mother-in-law’s. I could not believe it. I’ve done a million tests over the past two years and videoed them – the one time I didn’t, it was positive!’.
She went on to recall how she and Joe, who she met in a group therapy session in 2021, were left ‘sobbing’ after a scan revealed they were excepting a baby boy.
Stephanie Davis, 31, has announced she and partner Joe McKalroy are expecting their first child together, a baby boy due next year
The former Hollyoaks and Corrie star also revealed her fertility journey had been a ‘rollercoaster’ after suffering a devastating miscarriage in 2021
‘Joe never cries, so when he started that set me off. We were just sobbing on each other. Then the nurse in the room started crying, too.’
Stephanie said that Caben is also ready for the role of big brother and is already telling his mum how to sit in a bit not to ‘squash the baby’.
Recalling telling him the news during a family holiday, she said: ‘He was adorable. We took a video, and it’s so cute watching a little seven-year-old process that he’s getting a sibling. He points at me and goes, “Is that why you’ve got a lump in your tummy?” It was just beautiful, the three of us on the beach’.
Stephanie Davis previously revealed she had suffered a heartbreaking miscarriage in an emotional Instagram post in 2022.
She miscarried at three months, saying she woke up one morning and ‘didn’t feel pregnant anymore’.
Stephanie already shares seven-year-old son Caben with ex and former CBB star Jeremy McConnell (Stephanie, Joe and Caben pictured together)