Overview
- Chopra says she and Nick Jonas received a text warning the birth would be in papers within hours, leading them to announce it themselves before they felt ready.
- Malti Marie was born at about 27 weeks, weighed roughly 1 pound 11 ounces, appeared purple at birth, and was resuscitated and intubated, according to earlier remarks from Jonas.
- The baby spent more than three months in the NICU, underwent six blood transfusions, and saw only one parent at a time as the couple alternated long hospital shifts.
- To comfort their daughter, Jonas sang and played guitar while Chopra softly played recorded Hindu mantras in the crib, following nurses’ advice on skin-to-skin care.
- Samantha Ruth Prabhu praised Chopra’s candor as renewed attention focuses on the family’s early ordeal and their continued efforts to keep their now four-year-old’s life private.