Lauren’s baby at serious risk in EastEnders as painkiller addiction takes hold

Lauren Branning (Jacqueline Jossa) has realised she has been putting her unborn babe astatine hazard amid her addiction to painkillers successful EastEnders. 

The quality has been uncovering it progressively hard to header with her pain pursuing the injuries she sustained in the assemblage crush astatine Peggy’s backmost successful September. 

Last week, Lauren past had a immense daze erstwhile she discovered she was pregnant. 

During Monday’s episode, Lauren’s spouse Peter Beale (Thomas Law) caught her with beardown painkillers and warned her against continuing to instrumentality them for the involvement of their baby. 

Later, she confided successful relative Penny Branning (Kitty Castledine) that she was incapable to halt taking them, contempt doctors informing they would not beryllium prescribing immoderate more. 

Believing she had go addicted to her meds, Lauren told Penny she feared it could harm her baby. 

Penny ushered her to an exigency scan wherever medics confirmed that everything was OK with her pregnancy. 

However, they warned her to instrumentality to taking lone paracetamol for her symptom from present on, leaving Lauren panicked. 

Penny past agreed to support the day’s events to herself, but volition Lauren confide successful Peter astir her plight?

Things look acceptable to get adjacent much analyzable for Lauren aboriginal this week, erstwhile she finds herself astatine warfare with Peter’s mum Cindy Beale (Michelle Collins). 

After Lauren witnesses an incidental betwixt Cindy and Kojo Asare (Dayo Koleosho), she vows to find retired what concealed Cindy is hiding. 

With her matter with Junior Knight (Micah Balfour) astatine hazard of being exposed, what lengths volition Cindy spell to support Lauren quiet?

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