Hollyoaks star Steph Davis reveals ‘traumatic’ birth of second baby and sweet meaning behind name

STEPH Davis has announced she’s fixed commencement to her 2nd child. 

The former Hollyoaks star welcomed a babe lad and confirmed the quality successful a saccharine station connected Instagram. 

Stephanie's spouse Joe McKalroy took to Instagram to denote the joyous quality today, with him sharing a saccharine station to present him into the world.

"Welcome to the satellite my beauteous babe lad Samuel McKalroy," helium penned.

"Named aft your uncle the 1 and lone who volition ever measurement dense connected my bosom I privation truthful overmuch that helium could’ve met you and cherished you arsenic overmuch arsenic I do," Joe went on, revealing the saccharine meaning down the sanction the mates person chosen.

"It has been a traumatic acquisition but you are yet present successful our arms.

"I ne'er thought I could perchance emotion your mummy anymore than I already bash but this is conscionable truthful peculiar and an unconditional emotion I cannot explicate with words. 

"@stephaniedavis88 I emotion you much than you volition ever know," helium concluded.

Alongside the saccharine caption, Joe besides shared a enactment of snaps, giving the satellite a archetypal glimpse astatine the couple's bundle of joy.

The tot is Steph’s archetypal kid with spouse Joe McKalroy, joining her seven-year-old son, Caben, whom she had successful a erstwhile narration with Jeremy McConnell.

Joe and Steph, who person been unneurotic since 2021, person been trying for a babe for respective years, and successful July 2022 tragically suffered a miscarriage. 

Steph aboriginal revealed she was considering fertility attraction erstwhile they were capable to conceive naturally, sharing the large quality successful August 2024. 

She aboriginal referred to Joe arsenic “her biggest enactment and her rock”, and shared her excitement and fears of being a mum again. 

“Finding retired you’re large again aft a nonaccomplishment is specified a whirl of mixed emotions,” she wrote successful a statement, which was posted alongside a clip of Joe discovering she was expecting. 

“On 1 manus you’re truthful blessed you’re yet large with the idiosyncratic you love… but connected the different manus it’s filled with horrific anxiety, excitement astir the aboriginal & what’s to come, but being dropped backmost down to world with a bang & having hole yourself that determination whitethorn beryllium nary aboriginal with your baby. And this happened a fewer times to america connected our journey.” 

However, she was warned her gestation was astatine precocious hazard of different miscarriage oregon being ectopic – but said she “had this beardown gut feeling that it was each going to beryllium OK.”

The gestation has not been casual however, with Steph being enactment connected furniture remainder aft doctors suffered a haematoma - a postulation of humor which is located extracurricular the humor vessels. 

Amazingly the haematoma disappeared but successful a cruel twist she past picked up C-diff connected holiday.

C-diff is simply a germ (bacterium) that causes diarrhoea and colitis.

She said: “I was terrified. I’m inactive connected medicine to dainty it, but I’m dilatory recovering.”

Steph has since kept fans up to day with each aspects of her gestation online, including the sex uncover enactment wherever lad Caben popped the balloon to uncover helium was going to get a small brother, a look astatine the nursery, and what she packed successful her infirmary bag.