Coronation Street spoilers follow from Monday's episode (December 16), which is available to watch now on streaming service ITVX but hasn't yet aired on ITV1.
Coronation Street's Lauren Bolton has hinted that she may give away her baby son Frankie.
The teenager shared the potential plan with her boyfriend Max Turner in Monday's episode, questioning whether the youngster might be better off with his grandparents Gus and Anthea.
Joel Deering's parents have already warned of their intentions to fight for custody of Frankie after discovering that he's being raised by Lauren in the prison's mother and baby unit.
The latest visit to the cobbles saw Frankie's health scare explained after mysterious bruises were found on his body last week.
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Doctors at Weatherfield General confirmed that Frankie could have aplastic anaemia, a serious condition affecting the blood. If the diagnosis is confirmed, Frankie would require fortnightly blood transfusions until a suitable bone marrow donor could be found.
Lauren clung to the possibility that she could be a donor herself, but she was told that she was automatically ruled out because she once had Hepatitis C after getting a dodgy piercing when she was 13.
The news was another cruel blow to Lauren, coming just as she was dealing with the possibility that the courts could side with Gus and Anthea in a future custody battle for Frankie.
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Appearing to give up on the fight, Lauren told Max: "He deserves better than me – he does. I've always know it deep down. I'm a waste of space, like my dad always said.
"Frankie didn't come out of love. He came out of abuse. The first few months of his life, he's spent in hospital and now prison. Now he's really poorly and I can't even help him because I got a stupid backstreet piercing when I was wasted.
"The universe is just telling me that I don't deserve to be a mum. The truth is, Frankie would be better with someone else. As much as I hate them, maybe Frankie would be better off with Gus and Anthea."
Max clearly disagreed, but can he talk Lauren round?
Coronation Street airs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX.
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