Corries Jennie McAlpine shares baby girls name and admits family reason to it

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Corrie star Jennie McAlpine has introduced her gorgeous new baby to the world.

Five months ago, the actress who plays the role of Fiz Dobbs announced that she had given birth to a beautiful baby girl with her husband Chris Farr.

This is Jennie's third child with hubby Chris, 41, whose two other kids both had a hand in coming up with their new daughter's unusual name.

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Both Jennie, 39, and Chris opted to call their little bundle of joy Doris, who was born back in April.

Baby Doris is already just five months old but today sees her being introduced to the world.

Jennie admitted she wanted to hold off on showing her new child, just as she had done with her initial pregnancy.

She initially did not reveal anything until she was six months into the pregnancy, to maintain her privacy.

Speaking to OK! magazine, McAlpine said she was adapting well to having a new person in her family.

"I'm so aware of how precious time is and just how quickly it goes," she said.

"It's chaos, though. I mean, it was chaos before but now it's another level!"

Doris is now the younger sister to eight-year-old Albert and Hilda, aged 4.

Going into the birth, neither Jennie nor Albert knew whether they would be having a boy or a girl.

Instead to help choose the name of their new baby, the parents enlisted the help of their other kids, with two shortlists of boys' and girls' names being made.

Albert took to the challenge like a duck to water, according to doting mum Jennie.

"It was a big conversation. There were a lot of boys' names discarded, mainly because of football," Jennie confessed.

"Albert is a Manchester United fan and I think he left us with about two boys' names to choose from".

Jennie revealed that the pair settled on the name Doris as it was a "family name", that went alongside the names of their other kids

She also revealed a secret Corrie connection to their new baby daughter's name.

"The actress who played the first Rovers landlady, Annie Walker, was called Doris Speed so there's obviously something in my DNA that means these baby names keep happening!" she joked.

The little bundle of joy was born in Manchester's Wythenshawe Hospital just before midnight on April 4, weighing a healthy 7lbs 11oz.

Mum Jennie said that the labour for baby Doris was long, adding that "there were a few midwife shift changes" whilst she was giving birth.

Dad Chris was also there at the birth, capturing the moment on video and beaming with joy to tell his wife they had given birth to a baby girl.

Initially, Jennie could not believe they had had a girl, as she admitted that she had convinced herself she was going to have a boy. But she was pleasantly surprised, saying: "You can see my shock on the video as she’s brought up to me and I said, ‘I can’t believe it!’.”

The Corrie star is not set to return to the soap any time soon as she tends to baby Doris, with ITV writers taking her out of the show as she lands a lucrative new job in Norwich.

But despite taking a year off work to focus on her new child, she has already been back on the cobbles, introducing Doris to her on-screen family with the Dobbs.

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