Sally Norton was an expectant mother in the bed next to Deirdre Langton when she was in labour with Tracy in January 1977. She was an unmarried mother and social worker Dorothy Millington was trying to persuade her to give the child up for adoption. Sally ultimately gave her baby daughter away and then, when her boyfriend Stuart left her, she started to undergo psychiatric treatment at Weatherfield General and was seen on many occasions by Emily Bishop in her capacity of volunteer of the hospital friends association.