Snoop Dogg’s daughter Cori Broadus is mourning the death of her baby girl Codi just 20 days after the infant was released from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) following a 10-month stay.
“Monday, I lost the love of my life. My Codi,” Broadus wrote via her Instagram Stories on Saturday, January 31, along with a black-and-white photo of the mom holding her infant baby girl in the hospital.
In a subsequent post also shared via her Instagram Stories, Broadus reshared her Instagram post celebrating her daughter’s release from the NICU less than one month ago.
“20 days later? Dawg I’m sick,” she wrote.
In the original post, Broadus, one of famed rapper Snoop Dogg’s three children he shares with wife Shante Broadus, thanked fans and followers for their thoughts and prayers during her daughter’s months-long hospital stay. Codi was born in February 2025 — three months before Broadus’ due date. (Snoop Dogg also shares a son from a previous relationship.)
According to the Mayo Clinic, a baby born before 28 weeks gestation is considered extremely preterm and, as a result, can experience a variety of health problems, including breathing issues, feeding problems and difficulty regulating body temperature.
“She’s home,” the mom wrote on January 6 via Instagram, alongside photos and videos of the pair in bed, cuddling, after the infant’s 10-month hospital stay. “Thank you for every prayer, every message, every ounce of love. God heard them all.”
Six months after her daughter was born, Broadus exclusively opened up to Us Weekly about what life was like as a NICU mom. (Codi was Broadus’ first child with fiancé Wayne Deuce.)
“That girl is so feisty,” she told Us at the time. “That’s a feisty girl. She’s so resilient and strong. She just has so much character. The doctors and nurses always tell me, ‘Your baby got her mind. She’s smart. She’s alert. She knows what’s going on. She can hear. She can see. Yeah, the circumstances are not what you thought they would be, but it could be worse.’ That girl is just a sweet little firecracker.”
She continued, “The NICU is a different type of experience, just like you gotta know to know, and it’s not an easy place to be but the support is amazing. Sometimes I go in [the NICU] and I can’t stop crying, and I apologize. They’re like, ‘What are you [apologizing] for? This is normal. If you wasn’t crying, we would be worried. We’d be concerned, so just try to just stay close and just keep hope alive.”
Fifty-six studies of over 6,000 parents found that approximately 40-50 percent of parents with children in the NICU experience higher rates of anxiety, depression and acute stress, with mothers reporting higher rates than fathers.
“This morning, I had a moment because this baby who got there after I had my baby, she went home today, and I broke down,” Broadus shared in September 2025 of her at the time ongoing NICU stay. “Of course I’m happy. I’m ecstatic [for them] but it’s like, ‘Damn! You guys get to go home. Our baby is still here.’ But then it goes back into my faith. You got to trust in God and trust His plan. Everybody’s plan looks a little different. She’s gonna get home. Our journey home just looks a little different than the next baby and so forth.”
Broadus, who herself experienced a stroke at the age of 24 and was diagnosed with lupus at the age of 6, told Us that she has relied on her faith to keep her spirits high and fears low during every challenge she has faced in life.
“What really got me close with God is after I had my stroke,” she recalled to Us. “I told him, ‘God, if you get me out of here, I’m gonna tell the world about y’all and tell the world you’re real.’ And He did exactly that. And He gets me through.”
