Snoop Dogg’s daughter Cori Broadus is mourning the dying of her child woman Codi simply 20 days after the toddler was launched from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) following a 10-month keep.
“Monday, I misplaced the love of my life. My Codi,” Broadus wrote through her Instagram Tales on Saturday, January 31, together with a black-and-white picture of the mother holding her toddler child woman within the hospital.
In a subsequent put up additionally shared through her Instagram Tales, Broadus reshared her Instagram put up celebrating her daughter’s launch from the NICU lower than one month in the past.
“20 days later? Dawg I’m sick,” she wrote.
Within the unique put up, Broadus, one in all famed rapper Snoop Dogg’s three kids he shares with spouse Shante Broadusthanked followers and followers for his or her ideas and prayers throughout her daughter’s months-long hospital keep. Codi was born in February 2025 — three months earlier than Broadus’ due date. (Snoop Dogg additionally shares a son from a earlier relationship.)
In line with the Mayo Clinica child born earlier than 28 weeks gestation is taken into account extraordinarily preterm and, consequently, can expertise quite a lot of well being issues, together with respiratory points, feeding issues and problem regulating physique temperature.
“She’s dwelling,” the mother wrote on January 6 through Instagram, alongside images and movies of the pair in mattress, cuddling, after the toddler’s 10-month hospital keep. “Thanks for each prayer, each message, each ounce of affection. God heard all of them.”
Six months after her daughter was born, Broadus solely opened as much as Us Weekly about what life was like as a NICU mother. (Codi was Broadus’ first baby with fiancé Wayne Deuce.)

Snoop Dogg and his daughter, Cori Broadus
Getty Photographs“That woman is so feisty,” she informed Us on the time. “That’s a feisty woman. She’s so resilient and robust. She simply has a lot character. The docs and nurses all the time inform me, ‘Your child bought her thoughts. She’s sensible. She’s alert. She is aware of what’s happening. She will hear. She will see. Yeah, the circumstances usually are not what you thought they’d be, but it surely may very well be worse.’ That woman is only a candy little firecracker.”
She continued, “The NICU is a distinct sort of expertise, similar to you gotta know to know, and it’s not a straightforward place to be however the assist is wonderful. Typically I am going in (the NICU) and I can’t cease crying, and I apologize. They’re like, ‘What are you (apologizing) for? That is regular. Should you wasn’t crying, we might be frightened. We’d be involved, so simply attempt to simply keep shut and simply preserve hope alive.”
Fifty-six research of over 6,000 mother and father discovered that roughly 40-50 % of fogeys with kids within the NICU expertise greater charges of hysteria, despair and acute stress, with moms reporting greater charges than fathers.
“This morning, I had a second as a result of this child who bought there after I had my child, she went dwelling at this time, and I broke down,” Broadus shared in September 2025 of her on the time ongoing NICU keep. “In fact I’m joyful. I’m ecstatic (for them) but it surely’s like, ‘Rattling! You guys get to go dwelling. Our child remains to be right here.’ However then it goes again into my religion. You bought to belief in God and belief His plan. All people’s plan appears slightly completely different. She’s gonna get dwelling. Our journey dwelling simply appears slightly completely different than the subsequent child and so forth.”
Broadus, who herself skilled a stroke on the age of 24 and was identified with lupus on the age of 6, informed Us that she has relied on her religion to maintain her spirits excessive and fears low throughout each problem she has confronted in life.
“What actually bought me shut with God is after I had my stroke,” she recalled to Us. “I informed him, ‘God, if you happen to get me out of right here, I’m gonna inform the world about y’all and inform the world you’re actual.’ And He did precisely that. And He will get me by means of.”

