Hoda Kotb begged nurses to let her bathe daughter at hospital

Hoda Kotb remembers “begging” nurses to let her bathe daughter Hope throughout the 3-year-old’s current hospitalization. 

“I keep in mind I used to be there, and I requested for a shower,” Kotb shared on Monday’s broadcast of the “Today” present. 

“I needed to present her a shower they usually might solely sponge her and I mentioned, ‘Please, I’m begging you, I simply need a tub for my little one.’”

The media persona — who can be mother to daughter Haley Joy, 6 — mentioned that the hospital employees graciously complied together with her want. 

“And I keep in mind they obtained this little plastic factor, they usually put it within the bathe and put Hope in it and I remembered, like, that tiny factor, however it was all the things on the time,” she recalled.

“It was stunning.”

Kotb spoke about her touching expertise with co-host Jenna Bush Hager in commemoration of National Nurses Week.

“They knew at that second,” the mother of two continued of the nurse who comforted her. 

“Because loads of what they do isn’t about giving the IV and the needles and the stuff and the exams and all these issues. It’s greater than that. It’s all the things that they do.”

Kotb has not revealed the explanation behind Hope’s hospitalization, although it compelled her to take a couple of weeks off from “Today” in February to take care of her little woman within the ICU. 

However, the “I Really Needed This Today” creator beforehand dubbed the ordeal “actually scary.”

But at present, Kotb is glad to report that Hope is “vibrant and sensible,” raving that she is “over the moon” to have her youngest again at dwelling.