Corrie is going to be tackling stillbirth / late miscarriage when Michelle Connor loses her baby

http://www.itv.com/coronationstreet/...elle-and-steve

Very brave of Kym.

Story kicks of early Jan 2017

I really, really, really hope this is done sensitively-especially as Kym Marsh sadly went through the same herself.

It'll be interesting to see what effect this will have on Steve's depression too.

they are working with a few charities so should be, and I'm sure Kym would say so if she wasn't happy, or even just accepting the story if it wasn't done right.

im sure she would have used her own emotions to understand what Michelle feels so im expecting some real heartbreaking scenes if played correctly.

yeah, ive always wanted steves depression to come back, im a young male suffering from depression and its a day to day issue, he seems to be better...

So whos idea was the story?
Oh I know let's make Michelles baby die because Kyms experienced that in real life and it will so realistic.
She says they approached her , so someone came up with the idea, which to be honest is a little bit sick given her experience , brave of her not to tell them to shove it !

So we can see how this goes

Baby sadly dies
Steve wants to replace with his othe baby via Leanne and starts becoming involved.
Michelle finds out about Leanne
She falls into the arms of Robert ....

Oh no

Does stillbirth run in families as it is worth noting that the same thing happened to Maria and Liam's first born?

Exactly. Not to sound insensitive but Corrie will most likely bollocks it up like their past attempts to "highlight" issues and will only serve for her to shout at Steve and get with Robert like you said (which is so painfully obvious by their sudden interactions and interest in each other).

Corrie couldn't even care about the child cancer plot with Hope, despite claiming it would be followed up on.

Michelle shouldn't have even got pregnant in the first place, considering she flat out didn't want a child at one point.

I'm really shocked Corrie (well Kate Oates really) has taken this move, if they were going to do a baby loss storyline I would have thought they would give it to Leanne, given Kym Marsh's history.

I sincerely hope this baby loss storyline is much better executed and written than Maria's stillbirth.

I also hope we see Liz's reaction and sadness to Michelle's loss because I am sure she lost a baby daughter to premature birth many, many years ago.

Kym Marsh has my utmost respect for doing this storyline.

Why was this S/L released? You don't even have to read spoilers to learn of this.

I think with the Storyline being what it is releasing details is good, as then people can avoid the episodes if they feel its too close to home for them.

After EE and HO recently did them? Lame.

I agree. I know some questions will be raised as to why they asked Kym Marsh but if Kym is "happy" to relieve such a traumatic and heart-breaking ordeal then she has my utmost respect.

I also agree with the reply above-as someone else who also suffers from depression *some* days are 'easier' than others but it's always there; it does feel like it's been forgotten about where Steve's concerned so if they are to revisit that at the same time.

The problem with the Maria s/l was that it was wrapped up too quickly imo!! It was well acted & for a couple of weeks we felt the pain of both Maria and Liam but, as with her 'breakdown' a few years later they kind of made out that a month on holiday was enough to get over it!!
It was actually handled more sesitively the next year when she was pregnant with little Liam & constantly in fear of each scan etc!!

Bit insensitive isn't it Corrie?

I'm sure it will be handled sensitively and that Kym Marsh will be marvellous.

Sincerely hope Steve doesn't react by claiming a stake in Leanne's baby; he has Amy, a lot of people can't even have one child and he's been blessed! Yet I fear that is what will happen.

Interesting times ahead.

Interesting. Perhaps Kym wanted to portray this to raise awareness, maybe. I don't really like what I see of her in the media or her portrayal of Michelle, but it's very brave of her to do this. I imagine it would have been very difficult to film those scenes. I hope Corrie do it justice because obviously it's sensitive topic and doing this will be painful for their actress, so it'd be awful if the writing let it down as it usually does with Corrie.

To give her her due Kym seems to want to use what happened to herself to raise awareness for others!!
She did a documentary on premature birth just months after her own baby died!!
Very brave of her imo!!

Edit: Sorry, just realised I've kind of repeated what you just said!!

When the whole Leanne and Michelle both being pregnant started, it seemed the most dramatic way forward was for Michelle to lose her baby leading to perhaps Steve and/or Liz focussng on Leanne's boy.

I completely understood that perhaps Kym Marsh wouldn't want to re-enact those scenes for drama.

I hope that they don't trivialise the story line anymore than inevitable given that it is a soap. As someone else said, perhaps they could link it in with Steve's depression.

Steve has never really expressed the desire to have a son so I think that emphasising that would be an easy way out.

Sometimes soaps can surprise with the sensitivity that they deal with such issues given the usual nonsense that we have been accustomed to. I suspect that this will beone of those times.

Not if you don't watch EE or HO.

Very sad

Could definitely be sad

I hope they portray it accurately. It will be interesting for me to see how it's handled nowadays.

I had a stillbirth in 1965 in the days before scans and husbands being present at the birth. The only clue to something being wrong was that the baby's head wasn't down, but breach births weren't uncommon. My waters broke and I went into hospital. No baby heartbeat could be found and my husband was told it was 50/50 if either of us survived so who should they try to save. He chose me and was sent home and told to phone in the morning, not knowing if I would be alive or not. I was told nothing. Not even after the baby was delivered and didn't cry. When my husband honed he was told the situation and to come in to get the death certificate so he could arrange a funeral. Neither of us saw him.

I went home after 10 days with no support and had a breakdown, not going out because I thought people could see I wasn't normal. I was told to pull myself together, which I had sufficient strength of character to do and got a job to start the next day. If I hadn't started working again the next day I would have thought about getting back to normal but have slid further into depression nstead. It was never mentioned again, but I couldn't have children.

I had to find out for myself what went wrong. How different things would have been nowadays. So I hope it is handled accurately and sensitively.

The question someone asked about if it runs in families, I think it might because an aunt had exactly the same thing happen to her - a breach stillbirth and unable to conceive afterwards.

I know we shouldn't compare, but it will be interesting to see how Corrie do handle the storyline. Both EE and HO handled it very well IMO, especially EE which was very sensitively done and very emotional, they didn't rush it or gloss over it, they showed how it affects everyone, not just the mother. I really hope Corrie does this, but as others have said, I'm worried it will just lead to Michelle going to Robert and Steve going to Leanne.

It was just he got councillor and some pills and that's him sorted

I think Kym took the decision because she wants to play it, she wants to raise awareness of the terrible circumstances, and she knows Corrie is a great platform to do it.

Apparently Michelle she was due to l oose Steve's baby in 2009 but was scrapped after what happened.

I think Kate would understand if Kym didn't want to do it, but then Kym would want to do this Justice more than anyone.

Maria had a stillborn with Liam, Michelle's brother, we also had Steve's baby sister die too