Rachel Bloom thanks medical workers as she brings daughter home from NICU: 'The most emotionally intense week'
Rachel Bloom announced the birth of her baby girl with a social media post on Wednesday, where she called it the “most emotionally intense week” of her life.
The Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star took to Instagram to share the news with her followers, while also addressing the whirlwind that she and her husband, Dan Gregor, faced as they welcomed their first child during the coronavirus pandemic. In the post, Bloom shared that their daughter, whose name hasn’t been announced, was in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) before recently returning home.
“As the lovely doctors and nurses helped my daughter get some fluid out of her lungs, we watched the maternity ward around us change hourly to prepare for the upcoming COVID storm,” she wrote. The whole family is now home safe and I am just so grateful to all of our medical workers.”
The actress and singer also seemingly addressed the hospitalization of her friend and colleague, Adam Schlesinger, who was at the time very ill with the coronavirus. Late on Wednesday afternoon, it was announced that the 52-year-old Schlesinger had died of coronavirus complications.
“Having a baby in the NICU during a pandemic while a dear friend was in the hospital 3,000 miles away made this by far the most emotionally intense week of mine and Gregor’s lives,” Bloom wrote. “From those in our NICUs to those directly helping COVID patients like Adam, they are sacrificing so much to fight on the front lines of this war. Thank you thank you thank you.”
Bloom, who collaborated with the Fountains of Wayne rocker on the music for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, had reflected on her friend’s health as she watched nurses take diligent care of other patients impacted by the pandemic at a hospital thousands of miles away.
Fellow musician Bellsaint commented on the photo, writing, “That is a lot, sending lots of love and peace during this uncertain time for everyone. Congratulations on bringing a new human into the world!”
Bloom wrote that she will now be taking this unique time at home to get to know her new baby girl.
Updated, 6:30 p.m.: (The piece has been updated to reflect Schlesinger’s death.)
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