Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager.Photo:TODAY with Hoda & Jenna/YouTube
TODAY with Hoda & Jenna/YouTube
Jenna Bush HagerandHoda Kotbare remembering what it was like to grow their families.
TheToday with Hoda & Jennaco-hosts discussed the first photos ofRihannaandA$AP Rockywith both their sons,Riot Rose, 7 weeks, andRZA, 16 months, on Wednesday, with the mom of three, 41, asking Kotb, “Don’t you remember those days?”
“Yes, one to two,” Kotb, 59, recalled, then asking Bush Hager what it was like to go from two to three kids when welcoming youngestHal, 4.
“Two to three was hard, but I think one to two was the shock,” she said. “Mila— there was not much of an age gap [withPoppy].”
“Now they’re pretweens,” she said of the 8 and 10-year-olds. “But to have two babies, to have those two little girls together. It’s both beautiful…”
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Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager look back at bringing babies home
She then paused to ask Kotb, “Do you remember when I FaceTimed you when you brought Hope home?”
Kotb continued, “But I was looking back, it’s funny, at old pictures. Hope was in the bassinet andHaleywas sleeping under the bassinet. It’s like all those things. But you also realize how much you hovered over the first one.”
The moms laughed at being “dumb” and apologized to all the first-born kids on behalf of other parents because “we ruined y’all.”
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“Because we were hovering,” Kotb said. “Every time they go [make a noise], ‘What is it?’ We didn’t know.”
“It’s because it was our nervousness,” Bush Hager said. “We placed all our anxiety in your bassinet, with your binky.”
Mocking, Bush Hager continued, “You want a little anxiety? Want us to wake you up all night long ‘cause we want to make sure you’re breathing?”
source: people.com
