Hoda Kotb is taking a week-long “Today” show break to spend time with her kids.
Page Six can confirm that the journalist is absent from the morning show while daughters Haley, 5, and Hope, 3, are on spring break.
Kotb’s fourth hour co-host, Jenna Bush Hager, is also off air all week.
Pre-recorded episodes of “Today With Hoda & Jenna” are playing through Friday.
Kotb’s brief absence comes two weeks after she returned to NBC on March 6 following a “family health matter.”
The journalist will be off air all week.Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images
Jenna Bush Hager is also on a “Today With Hoda & Jenna” break.Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty ImagesThe 58-year-old, who hadn’t been on air since February, told viewers that her youngest daughter was home after being “in the ICU for a few days and in the hospital for more than a week.”
Kotb gushed that she was “just so happy” and “over the moon” to have Hope under her roof, noting, “We are watching her closely.
“I’m grateful for the doctors and the nurses,” she added, tearing up.
The brief break comes two weeks after Kotb took a lengthy absence amid her daughter’s health scare.Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty ImagesThe former “Dateline” correspondent admitted that she had a hard time “living in [a] lane” of thankfulness during Hope’s health scare.
“Then I decided, ‘You know what, let me think about this for a minute,'” Kotb recalled at the time.
“‘I have a family who loves me, I have a little girl who’s Hope, I have a wonderful support system. I have doctors who would’ve done anything to make everything better.'”
Hope, 3, was in the ICU and the hospital for more than one week.Instagram/@hodakotb
Kotb was “over the moon” to have her little one back home earlier this month.hodakotb/InstagramNow, the Daytime Emmy winner wears an “M” necklace for strength.
“It’s worn down because I rub it all the time, and it says, ‘God’s got this,'” she explained of the sentimental jewelry.
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The NBC personality co-parents Hope and her big sister with ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman, whom she split from in January 2022.
She shares her daughters with Joel Schiffman.hodakotb/Instagram Seven months later, Kotb explained to People how she and the financier, 65, “switch each week” while raising the little ones.
“He’ll take the girls and do some fun things, and I’ll take some quiet time,” she said in the August 2022 interview. “It’s a healthy mix, and the kids love it.”
Kotb clarified that she and Schiffman have two nannies and are “very open about fixing things.”
