Emmerdale spoilers follow.
Emmerdale has confirmed plans for another baby storyline.
Dawn and Billy Fletcher are currently expecting a child together, but this won't be the only baby to make an appearance in the coming months.
Show producer Laura Shaw shared the news with Digital Spy and other media at an Emmerdale press event this week, warning that one relationship in the village will be severely tested.
Shaw laughed: "We all love a soap baby! We know that Dawn and Billy are pregnant and excitedly waiting for their baby, which is conveniently due around Christmas, as soap babies always are! It's always either Christmas or Super Soap Week.
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"But we do have another baby that is joining us. This one won't quite be the happy news of Billy and Dawn, though, and it's going to be a huge shock for one of our couples in Emmerdale."
She added: "It's going to literally turn their lives upside down and result in a big fracture in what was once a very solid marriage.
"I'll leave you to guess who that might be."
Dawn announced her pregnancy news in July after Kim Tate discovered a pregnancy test in the bin at Home Farm.
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When Dawn headed to the hospital for a scan, she discovered that she was further along with the pregnancy than she'd originally thought.
Dawn and Billy learned that the due date meant they could expect to meet their baby in time for Christmas.
Olivia Bromley, who plays Dawn, told Digital Spy and other press at the time: "Dawn is just really happy over the pregnancy, because obviously this represents to her so much in terms of the growth from where she's come from.
"It's the fact Dawn has got this stable family unit now, with the person that she loves that she's going to have a baby with. It's such different circumstances to when she had her first child, which were really unhappy."
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Emmerdale airs on weeknights at 7.30pm on ITV1, and streams on ITVX.
