Derek Bailey Shepherd

Derek Bailey Shepherd is the only son of Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd. He has two siblings, an older sister, Zola, and a younger sister, Ellis.
==History==
===Meredith's Pregnancy===
Meredith found out she was pregnant three weeks into her pregnancy, a few months after Mark died. She told Derek by buying a shirt for Zola that said "World's Best Big Sister". At first, she was convinced that she would miscarry, which is why she only told him, and not even Cristina. ("I Was Made for Lovin' You")
===Birth===
Meredith went into labor in the middle of a super storm. The labor was going smoothly until the OB determined that the baby had face presentation. He was then born via emergency c-section in the dark during the storm. In the operating room, the doctors had to hold flashlights so that Connie, the OB, could see to deliver him. After he was born, his breathing was shallow and his sats were low, so he was taken to the NICU to be monitored and receive oxygen. After he was born, Shane noticed that Meredith had suffered from a massive splenic hemorrhage caused by her fall down the stairs. Miranda Bailey performed surgery to stop the hemorrhage and saved Meredith's life, thus Meredith named her son after her. ("Perfect Storm")
===Meredith's Attack===
A few weeks after Meredith was attacked by a patient, Arizona and Alex brought Zola, Bailey, and Ellis in to see her. However, the three of them were too scared by her appearance and the visit was brief. After she had recovered, the family was happily reunited at home. ("The Sound of Silence")
===Fifth Birthday===
For his fifth birthday, he wanted a superhero party. After Alex had to back out of helping set up the party to operate on a patient and the entertainment cancelled, Link offered to help her. They set up the party and Link even pretended to be Thor when Bailey asked if he was. ("Help, I'm Alive")
===Thatcher's Death===
When Thatcher died, he left presents for Ellis, Bailey, and Zola in his closet. Meredith took those presents to her kids and told them about their grandpa. ("The Winner Takes It All")
===Meeting Andrew===
After Zola caught Andrew DeLuca trying to sneak out of the house in the middle of the night, Meredith sat Bailey and his siblings down with ice cream and told them that Andrew was at the house because the two of them were dating. Bailey asked Meredith if she would kiss Andrew, to which she said she probably would. ("Head Over High Heels")
===Saying Goodbye to Meredith===
Just before Meredith decided to turn herself into the police for committing insurance fraud, she sat Bailey, Zola, and Ellis down and told them that she would be gone for a while. Bailey asked where Meredith was going, and she said she had to take care of something very important. She didn't give them details, but assured them that Alex, Maggie, and Amelia would be there for them. ("Jump Into the Fog")
===Meredith's Community Service===
When Meredith was doing community service, Bailey found her vest and asked if he could wear it to school. She told him no, saying she needed it to go to work. ("Nothing Left to Cling To")
===Halloween===
He dressed as a football player for Halloween. Meredith was released from jail that day and missed trick or treating with them, but got home in time to help them sort candy. ("Whistlin' Past the Graveyard")
===COVID-19 Pandemic===
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Bailey stayed home with his sisters, Amelia, Link, and his new cousin, Scout while his Mom treated COVID patients at the hospital and eventually became sick with COVID-19 herself and had to be admitted. He had an exceptional amount of energy during this time, making Link comment that he needed some kind of outlet for it. When Amelia realized she'd missed Link's birthday, she convinced the kids to watch a movie by saying it was Link's birthday wish, giving them some free time. ("The Center Won't Hold")
For his birthday that year his Mom asked him what he wanted and he told her he wanted a big cake all to himself. His Mom bought it for him and at his birthday party he stuck his face right in the cake and then licked the icing off his fingers and made a big production of it. This made everyone who was at the party: his sisters, his Mom, Amelia, Link, and Maggie laugh. Meredith realized that that’s what he really wanted for his birthday was to make them all laugh because at the time the COVID-19 Pandemic was all over the news and his cousin Scout who was just a baby was keeping all of the adults in the house up all night. As a result, no one in the house was laughing much. His Mom said he looked just like his father Derek the way he lit up. ("Breathe") 
Shortly after Andrew died, Zola, Bailey, and Ellis had a dance party in the backyard while the grieving adults supervised and tried to figure out how to tell the kids, who had loved Andrew. ("It's All Too Much")
===Play Date===
Zola, Bailey, Ellis, Leo, Allison, and Scout all had a play date together with Teddy and Amelia supervising. They spent most of the day outside, playing on their play set. At the end of the day, Owen came over and told Zola that they'd taken Meredith off the ventilator and she was breathing on her own. Zola happily spread the information to the other kids. ("Breathe")
===Visiting Mt. Rainier===
Later, Eric and Maureen bought an RV, packed it with supplies, and drove it from Colorado to Seattle. For two weeks, they had no contact with anyone but each other. When they arrived in Seattle, they were excited to meet Scout and offered to take all four kids to see Mt. Rainier so Amelia and Link could have some time to themselves. ("Sorry Doesn't Always Make It Right")
===Meredith Waking Up and Coming Home===
Bailey and Ellis stayed home with Maureen while Maggie took Zola to the hospital to see Meredith in the hopes it would help encourage her to wake up. While they were gone, Bailey and Ellis made a fort. When Link and Amelia returned, they asked to be let into the fort. Bailey and Ellis denied them entry without the password. ("Good as Hell")
After her pulmonary studies showed a remarkable improvement in her lung capacity and her labs came out clear, Meredith was discharged from the hospital. Instead of leaving to a fanfare, she had Jackson slip her out the back and drop her off at home, where her kids greeted her happily. Because she hadn't told anyone she was coming, the kids' welcome home poster was unfinished, but she appreciated it anyway and asked her kids to tell her everything that had happened while she was gone. ("Tradition")
===Christmas===
Meredith, Amelia, Link, Owen, and Teddy spent Christmas together with all their children. At this celebration, Owen proposed to Teddy for the second time and she accepted. ("Someone Saved My Life Tonight")
===Maggie and Winston's Wedding===
In August 2020, Bailey attended Maggie and Winston's backyard wedding. However, at the wedding, Maggie's father and Winston's grandmother opposed the wedding, wanting to wait until more people could attend, so the wedding was postponed. In April 2021, a new wedding was planned and they all attended. Bailey walked down the aisle with his mother and siblings to spread flower petals at the start of the ceremony. During the reception Bailey, along with both of his siblings, held engagement rings for Link as he proposed to Amelia on the beach after the ceremony. ("Someone Saved My Life Tonight")
===Meeting Addison===
After working with Addison on a surgery and talking to her about Derek, Meredith invited Addison to her house to meet her kids. They were happy to meet her and asked if she was a friend of their dad's. She said that she was and they immediately got along. ("Hotter Than Hell")
===Thanksgiving===
When Meredith got stuck in Minnesota when snow caused her flight to be canceled, Amelia was left to cook the meal alone as well as care for all four children by herself. When Link came to drop off Scout and learned this, he decided to stay and help. When he discovered that the oven wasn't on and the turkey was not cooking, he helped her change the meal plan. The kids happily ate the replacement meal when Link said he'd pardoned the turkey. While they ate, Zola asked what an AVM was and Amelia explained. Bailey then asked what sex was, shocking the adults.
After dinner, Link and all four kids had a dance party. ("Everyday Is a Holiday (With You)")
===Decorating for Christmas===
As Christmas approached, Zola, Bailey, and Ellis helped their mother decorate a Christmas tree at their house. ("It Came Upon a Midnight Clear")
===Weekend with Maggie and Winston===
When Meredith traveled to Minnesota to finish up the report on Hamilton's surgery and then spend the weekend with Nick, Zola, Bailey, and Ellis spent the weekend with Maggie and Winston. While fighting with Ellis over a stuffed animal, Bailey ended up cutting his knee. Winston told the kids they were going to play Emergency Room and Zola helped him clean and bandage Bailey's knee. ("The Makings of You")
===Meeting Nick===
When Meredith returned home from her trip to Minnesota to present Hamilton's case to the staff at the Mayo, Nick came with her. They brought pizza to her house and he met her three children. ("Put the Squeeze On Me")
===Meredith's Party===
When Meredith held a dinner party at her house so that everyone could get to know Nick better, Zola, Bailey, and Ellis attended the party. While they waited for dinner to be ready, they played in the backyard with Amelia and Kai and then played hide and seek. ("Stronger Than Hate")
===Halloween===
Bailey went trick or treating with his siblings and cousin, Scout, on Halloween. He dressed as Iron Man. ("Haunted")
===Fire and Move to Boston===
With the move incoming, the whole family started preparing for the move. When a lightning storm hit, Maggie and Winston stayed at the house with the kids packing things while Meredith worked. They told the kids to stay inside, despite Zola noting the low odds of them being struck by lightning. Later, the kids were scared when lightning struck the house, starting a fire. They quickly evacuated and were reunited with Meredith outside as they watched the firefighters of Station 19 try to put out the fire. Meredith assured them that what was most important was that they were all safe. ("Thunderstruck")
The morning after the fire, Meredith brought all three kids to the station with cookies. Andy let them play in the fire truck while they were there. ("We Build Then We Break")
Two weeks after the fire, Meredith took her kids to the hospital on her last day of work in Seattle. Ellis and Bailey brought gifts for their old daycare teachers and she sent them to distribute them. At the end of the day, they went to the airport and boarded their flight to Boston. Meredith read them Tessa Hobbes' final book during the flight. ("I'll Follow the Sun")
===Appendectomy===
When Nick picked Bailey up from hockey practice, he complained of stomach pain, so Nick examined him. Upon observing signs of appendicitis, he called the hospital and was told to bring Bailey in. Bailey was given morphine for the pain and antibiotics and then had an appendectomy. When he woke up, Meredith was there, having flown urgently back from Seattle. He asked Meredith where Nick was, as Meredith had sent him away. ("Never Felt So Alone")
==Notes and Trivia==
*He was named after his father and Miranda Bailey, his parents' colleague who saved Meredith after she delivered him.
*For his first Halloween, he was dressed as a pumpkin.Thriller, 10x07
*He is almost always called Bailey.
*While he was being watched by his Aunt Maggie, he once spilled an entire bag of flour on the floor.Trigger Happy, 12x20
*Before falling unconscious, Meredith said that she knew his name but was put under anesthetic before she could tell anyone. It is unknown if she had the name Bailey in mind at the time, as Bailey hadn't saved her yet.
*Before his birth, Meredith and Cristina occasionally referred to him as "fetus."
*When discussing names, Derek said he liked William and Meredith liked Sebastian.
*He is the only one of his parents' three kids to be born in the hospital where they work, as well as the only one born in Seattle.Perfect Storm, 9x24
*He went through a phase of saying funny before every sentence.The Winner Takes It All, 15x11
*He also had a phase with pyromanic tendencies, causing his caretakers to hide anything that he could start a fire with.The Center Won't Hold, 17x02
*Given Addison's reaction upon meeting him, it is heavily implied that he bears a striking resemblance to his father.Hotter Than Hell, 18x03
*He typically has separate dishes for his food, as he doesn't like any of it to touch.Stronger Than Hate, 18x18
==Gallery==
===Episodic===
9x24BaileyGreyShepherd.png|Perfect Storm
10x01DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Seal Our Fate (with Callie)
10x02DerekBaileyShepherd.png|I Want You With Me (with Alex)
10x03DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Everybody's Crying Mercy
10x04DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Puttin' on the Ritz
10x05DerekBaileyShepherd.png|I Bet It Stung
10x06DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Map of You
10x07DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Thriller
10x09DerekBaileyShepherd.jpg|Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
10x10DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Somebody That I Used to Know
10x12DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Get Up, Stand Up (with Derek)
10x17DerekBaileyShepherd.jpg|Do You Know?
10x18DerekBaileyShepherd.png|You Be Illin'
10x19DerekBaileyShepherd.png|I'm Winning
10x20DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Go It Alone (with Callie)
10x21DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Change of Heart (with Derek)
10x24DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Fear (of the Unknown)
11x10DerekBaileyShepherd.png|The Bed's Too Big Without You
11x18DerekBaileyShepherd.jpg|When I Grow Up (with Derek and Zola)
11x19DerekBaileyShepherd.jpg|Crazy Love
11x21DerekBaileyShepherd.jpg|How to Save a Life (with Meredith)
11x22DerekBaileyShepherd.jpg|She's Leaving Home (right)
11x23ZolaGreyShepherd.jpg|Time Stops (left)
12x09ZolaBaileyGreyShepherd.png|The Sound of Silence
12x16ZolaGreyShepherd.png|When It Hurts So Bad
12x20BaileyShepherd.png|Trigger Happy
12x21DerekBaileyShepherd.png|You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side
13x08DerekBaileyShepherd.png|The Room Where It Happens
13x17DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Till I Hear It From You
13x23DerekBaileyShepherd.png|True Colors
14x13DerekBaileyShepherd.png|You Really Got a Hold on Me
14x19DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Beautiful Dreamer
14x23DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Cold as Ice
15x03DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Gut Feeling
15x05DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Everyday Angel
15x06DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Flowers Grow Out of My Grave
15x07DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Anybody Have a Map?
15x10DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Help, I'm Alive
15x11DerekBaileyShepherd.png|The Winner Takes It All
15x22DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Head Over High Heels
15x23DerekBaileyShepherd.png|What I Did for Love
15x25DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Jump Into the Fog
16x01DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Nothing Left to Cling To
16x05DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Breathe Again
16x06DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Whistlin' Past the Graveyard
17x02DerekBaileyShepherd.png|The Center Won't Hold
17x08DerekBaileyShepherd.png|It's All Too Much
17x10DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Breathe
17x11DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Sorry Doesn't Always Make It Right
17x13DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Good as Hell
17x15DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Tradition
17x17DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Someone Saved My Life Tonight
18x03DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Hotter Than Hell
18x06DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Everyday Is a Holiday (With You)
18x08DerekBaileyShepherd.png|It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
18x12DerekBaileyShepherd.png|The Makings of You
18x13DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Put the Squeeze On Me
18x18DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Stronger Than Hate
19x04DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Haunted
19x06DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Thunderstruck
S196x07DerekBaileyShepherd.png|We Build Then We Break
19x07DerekBaileyShepherd.png|I'll Follow the Sun
20x05DerekBaileyShepherd.png|Never Felt So Alone
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