Hoda Kotb Says Daughter Hope, 3, Still Has ‘Long Road’ To Recovery After Hospitalization

Hoda Kotb is grateful for the progress. After her youngest girl Hope, 3, was hospitalized earlier this year, she opened up astir however things are going arsenic the tot continues to recover. “She’s doing better. There’s inactive a agelong roadworthy to go, but she’s doing overmuch better,” she told Page Six connected Monday, May 15 astatine the Webby Awards. “We’re making large progress. This kid is afloat of healing light, arsenic I accidental to her.”

Holda told the outlet however she has coped with the tremendous stress of the wellness contented her girl experienced. “It is simply a lot, but I person a bully radical with maine helping me, and I deliberation I’ve learned to, like, sometimes you gotta rotation with it,” she said. “You gotta spot and benignant of surrender, and that’s benignant of however I’ve been going done it. But she’s doing a large job.”

Though she admitted her “priorities person ever been some girls,” she besides said the incidental helped her regain perspective. “It does punctual you erstwhile you get mislaid successful a minute, it’s like, ‘Wait, I was disquieted astir what? That mattered due to the fact that of why?’” she said. “So I’ve learned to benignant of recognize that determination are things successful beingness that are much, much, overmuch much important than the small things.”

Hoda’s 2 week permission of lack from the Today Show successful mid-February was keenly felt by fans and by co-host Jenna Bush Hager. She aboriginal revealed the permission of absence, which was followed by different outpouring interruption hiatus to walk clip with Hope and her older daughter Haley, 6, was owed to a wellness scare for the youngest. She returned to the show connected March 6, yet offering up an mentation connected the “family health matter” that had kept her away.

“My youngest, Hope, was successful the ICU for a fewer days and successful the infirmary for a small much than a week,” she said. “I’m grateful she’s home. She is backmost home. I was waiting for that time to come. We are watching her closely. I’m conscionable truthful happy.”

In April, Hoda shared however Hope’s ordeal had huffy her recognize however strong her girl is. “To ticker her spell done a hard clip astatine conscionable 3 years aged is truly pugnacious for immoderate genitor due to the fact that you’re helpless,” she said during an April 25 quality connected the Southern Living’s Biscuits And Gravy podcast. “But I deliberation you recognize conscionable however incredibly resilient and beardown she is. I deliberation sometimes you larn life’s lessons from the astir astonishing places.”

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