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Snoop Dogg’s Daughter Cori Broadus Shares Heartwarming Update for NICU Awareness Month
Cori Broadus, the 26-year-old daughter of Snoop Dogg, has shared an update from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) more than six months after prematurely giving birth to her first child.
Though her baby girl remains hospitalized, Broadus convoyed an optimistic outlook, and had words of support for other parents going through the same ordeal.
“Hi guys, it’s Cori Broadus and Codi Dreux, and it’s September, which means that it’s National NICU Awareness Month,” Broadus said in an Instagram Reel posted on Wednesday, Sept. 3. “I wanna give a major shoutout to all of the moms, the dads, the nurses, the doctors, from one NICU mom to another. I know this is a hell of a ride, but there’s nothing that God gives us that we can’t handle.”
Broadus previously revealed on Feb. 28 that she had welcomed the baby girl with her fiancé Wayne Deuce after 25 weeks, just two months after confirming news of the pregnancy.
“My baby has been in the NICU for six months now, and the way I’ve been going through it … It’s such an emotional rollercoaster,” she explained in the short video. “And when we come in here, we try to make sure that our love is bigger than the wires and the tubes and the machines, and just staying strong for our Codi Dreux.”
Broadus then reiterated her gratitude for the doctors and nurses who have been helping her family through the ordeal, as well as her fellow parents for making her not feel alone.
“I mean we have truly become family at this point,” she continued. “And the babies, you guys are so strong, resilient, you guys are literally tiny fighters, and you are the heroes we celebrate this month and every day.”
Broadus concluded her message with a prepared statement she had written for NICU awareness month. “Here’s to the long nights, the small victories, and the miracles in the making,” she read from her phone. “From a NICU’s mom’s heart, thanks for standing with us. We’re still fighting, we’re still believing, and we’re still here.”
The youngest child and only daughter of the famed rapper is unfortunately no stranger to health issues. At just 7, Broadus was diagnosed with the autoimmune disorder lupus, as well as secondary antiphospholipid antibody syndrome. In 2024, just over a year before giving birth, she also suffered a “severe” stroke.
Earlier this year, Broadus opened up about the condition that caused her daughter’s premature birth, a rare, potentially life-threatening pregnancy complication called HELLP (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets) syndrome that affects 0.1 to 0.6 percent of pregnancies. She said that she first began experiencing upper abdominal pain the week of Feb. 25, and that her obstetrician initially suspected preeclampsia.
“She told me I needed to go to UCLA labor and delivery right away,” Broadus recalled to UCLA Health. “I got ready and went in thinking it was just going to be a checkup. I thought, ‘I’m going to go right back home and we’re gonna keep baking.’”
However, after arriving at the hospital where doctors performed an array of tests, Broadus was diagnosed with the rare complication, which can be serious or fatal for the mother and child in up to 25 percent of cases if misdiagnosed. Her obstetrics team at UCLA Health quickly stabilized Broadus and prepared her for delivery, and she gave birth via C-section the next day.
Since being welcomed into the world, Codi Dreux has remained in the NICU. But it seems clear that both mother and baby are fighters, and with any luck Codi Dreux will be coming home soon.
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