Priyanka Chopra Recalls Being 'So Close to Losing' Daughter Malti 'So Many Times'

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Priyanka Chopra Jonas is not mincing words about how harrowing her daughter's earliest days were. As fans know now, Priyanka and husband Nick Jonas welcomed their first child, a daughter named Malti Marie, via surrogate in January 2022.

They later revealed the newborn had spent more than 100 days in the NICU after arriving prematurely, and in a previous interview with , Priyanka recalled her daughter being smaller than her hand when she was born.

The star newly describes just how terrified she was when she learned their baby was coming early.«I remember [Nick] just held me by my shoulders, and I said, 'Just tell me what to do, because I don’t know what to do,'» she recalls to. «And he’s like, 'Just get into the car with me.'»After finally bringing her home, the absence of the NICU monitors was felt by Priyanka. «You know your child is alive, because you can see their heartbeat (on the monitor).

I couldn’t sleep for days, because now suddenly she was home without a monitor,» she explains to. «I used to put my ear on her chest.