Priyanka Chopra recently got open and honest about her experience being a first time mom.

The actress, 41, welcomed one-year-old daughter Malti with her husband Nick Jonas, 31, in January 2022.

But the parents did not bring their 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 girl home until May as she was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 12-weeks early and had to spend her first 100-plus days in the NICU.

She elaborated, ‘I think when you put them to bed, it’s extremely overwhelming because every single day you worry about what you can do wrong and what mistake you might make.’

Chopra added, ‘But you have to check yourself, and I check myself with my family.’

Motherhood: Priyanka Chopra recently got open and honest about her experience being a first time mom

Parents: The actress, 41, welcomed one-year-old daughter Malti with her husband Nick Jonas , 31, in January 2022. But the parents did not bring their 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 girl home until May as she was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 12-weeks early and had to spend her first 100-plus days in the NICU

The Jharkhand, India native admitted that motherhood has been full of tense yet rewarding moments.

But then there are the times when she’s been able to be reassured in the job she’s doing just by looking at the demeanor of her little girl.

‘I look at [my daughter’s] smile, and I’m like, ‘Okay, okay. I’m doing good so far,” the  former Quantico star said, before clarifying, ‘It’s the greatest thing I’ve ever done, but it’s extremely scary.’

Now, after being a mother for more than a year-and-a-half, Chopra has noticed some unexpected things about herself.

‘It’s made me a tad more sensitive and fragile, I think, and it makes me nervous a little bit. I didn’t expect that,’ she shared of her feelings and emotions.

Chopra and Jonas welcomed their first 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 together via surrogate on January 15, 2022, but she ended up staying in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) the first three-and-a-half months of her life.

‘I don’t think it was our test. I think it was her test,’ Chopra said of Malti’s experience in the hospital. ‘I realized very, very early that I did not have the luxury to be scared or to be weak because she was scared and weak.

With her motherly instincts already in place, Chopra said she knew she had to be strong her her 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦.

‘Overwhelmed’: Speaking to PEOPLE , Chopra admitted she’s fearful about making mistakes as a parent and that motherhood gets overwhelming ‘every day’

‘I think when you put them to bed, it’s extremely overwhelming because every single day you worry about what you can do wrong and what mistake you might make,’ Chopra explained

‘I needed to make her feel at every given moment that she’s not alone,’ she shared, ‘That we’ve got her.’

In the prefect gift for her mom, Malti made it home for the first time right before Mother’s Day last year.

Once they were able to bring their daughter home, Chopra quickly realized a whole new set of fears.

‘[In the NICU], 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,’ the Love Again actress explained.

All is revealed: ‘I look at [my daughter’s] smile, and I’m like, ‘Okay, okay. I’m doing good so far,” the former Quantico star said of when she’s feeling unsure about how’s she doing as a mom

Protective: Initially, the first-time parents did their best to keep their daughter out of the spotlight but they’ve since unveiled Malti’s face on social media

‘I used to put my ear on her chest. I would wake up every couple of minutes just to see if she was OK. For weeks, this went on.’

Initially, the first-time parents did their best to keep their daughter out of the spotlight, so that she could build up her strength without any distractions.

However, Chopra and Jonas have appeared to loosen things up in more recent times, and are now taking her out to appearances and are showing her face a little bit more in social media posts.

Just this past January, around her first 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡day, Malti made her first public appearance with her parents when she attended the ceremony honoring the Jonas Brothers with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame in Los Angeles.