Charity’s life hangs in the balance after Ross is forced to deliver her baby in Emmerdale

Will she live to see the baby grow up?

 18-24 APRIL

Charity’s gone overboard with Sarah’s baby shower, but when the woman making the cake can’t deliver it, Mack and Charity head to pick it up.

After a quick toilet stop, Mack’s car won’t start and Charity and Mack are stuck in the middle of nowhere with a broken down car, no phones and her waters break!

Charity spots an approaching car, and it’s Ross, who begrudgingly agrees to give them a lift to the hospital.

Meanwhile, making her big entrance at the baby shower, Sarah wonders what could have kept Jacob and Charity. Finding her phone, Sarah sees all the missed calls and panics.

Seeing the same number of missed calls on her phone, Chas knows something is seriously wrong.

In the hospital, the lift with Charity, Mack and Ross inside breaks down, and Charity’s panic mounts as her pain, contractions and desperation are all mounting.

For Mack, the confined space of the lift triggers his trauma from the bunker, whilst Ross tries to call for help over the intercom.

Meanwhile, Sarah is confused when she arrives at the hospital, and there is no record of Charity in the system.

In his HR meeting, Jacob’s anxiety levels are sky high as he relays how Todd’s bullying made him feel, unaware that Charity’s childbirth drama is simultaneously unfolding in the same building. And when the meeting finishes, he’s horrified to see all the missed calls.

When a midwife on the labour ward gets an emergency call about a woman about to give birth in a lift, Sarah fears the worst. Over the intercom, the midwife enlists Ross and Mack to help deliver the baby in the lift.

Ross successfully delivers the baby before noticing a growing pool of blood on the lift floor, and Charity’s life hangs in the balance.

Emmerdale continues Monday to Friday at 8pm on ITV1 with first look episodes available from 7am on ITVX