Hoda Kotb, 56, 明らかにする／漏らすs her dream of 可決する・採択するing a third child with fiance Joel Schiffman has been 延期するd because of COVID-19 but 主張するs she is 'waiting wisely' にもかかわらず 'really slow' 過程

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Hoda Kotb has 明らかにする／漏らすd that her dream of 可決する・採択するing a third child with her fiance Joel has been 延期するd まっただ中に the COVID-19 pandemic, nine months after she 確認するd that the couple were in the 過程 of trying to bring another baby into their family.?

The 56-year-old Today host 株d a bittersweet update on her 追求（する），探索（する） to welcome a third child during an 外見 on Watch What Happens Live on Thursday night, when she opened up about the 'really slow' 進歩 that has been made in her 最新の 採択 旅行.??

'You know what's funny about the 採択 stuff that's going on now, 明らかに it's really slow during this time, during COVID,' she said, before admitting: 'I thought that it would be a different game.'

Hoda went on to explain that she and Joel, 63, have been told by their 採択 機関 that the pandemic has 誘発するd many people who might 普通は want to give up their babies to '持つ／拘留する の上に' them instead.?

Update: Hoda Kotb 明らかにする／漏らすd that her dream of ado pting a third child has been 延期するd as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, admitting that the 過程 has been 'really slow'?

?Growing brood: The Today host, 56, and her fiance Joel Schiffman, 63, have two 可決する・採択するd daughters together, Haley Joy, four, and Hope Catherine, two?

'They said that people who maybe 普通は would feel like it would be something they would want to do - have a child and then give it to someone to raise because they couldn't - are 持つ／拘留するing の上に things because they don't have anything in that moment,' the Today 錨，総合司会者 株d.??

'That's what I've heard from our 機関, that everything is slow.'

However, Hoda 主張するd that the couple is not giving up hope of 拡大するing their brood, but said the family is instead doing their best to be 患者.?

'They say wait wisely and just be. So we're just going to be,' she 追加するd.?

Host Andy, 53, who became an adoptive parent to two-year-old son Benjamin in 2019, then reminded Hoda of a 引用する she once 株d herself: 'Everything is 権利 on time.'?

'Yes!' Hoda 答える／応じるd, 公式文書，認めるing that the mantra 現実に （機の）カム from her の近くに friend and fellow morning news show host コマドリ Roberts, who imparted the 知恵 when Hoda 明らかにする／漏らすd that she had 可決する・採択するd her first child, Haley Joy, at the age of 52.?

'When I first got Haley, I 可決する・採択するd her in my 50s and I called コマドリ Roberts and I said, "コマドリ, can you believe, this is so crazy... I'm 50 and I have a baby,"' Hoda 解任するd, before 株ing that the GMA 錨，総合司会者 簡単に told her: 'That baby is 権利 on time.'?

'And everything has been 権利 on time!' she 追加するd.???

Hoda - who is getting ready to 長，率いる to Tokyo to cover the Olympics for the Today show and NBC - welcomed Haley Joy, now four, in 2017, and two years later, she and Joel 可決する・採択するd their second child, Hope Catherine, now two.???

Staying strong: Hoda said that her 採択 機関 told her many parents who might ordinarily want to give up their baby are instead '持つ／拘留するing の上に' them まっただ中に the pandemic?

株ing: 'They say wait wisely and just be. So we're just going to be,' she told Andy Cohen - who himself became an adoptive parent to son Be njamin, two, in 2019?

Her 最新の comments about 採択 come eight months after she spoke 排他的に to DailyMail.com about her 願望（する） to welcome a third child.?

'いつかs I do think speaking something out loud sort of wills it into 存在, weirdly,' Hoda said of her wish to grow her family.?

'You know, it’s almost like if you have a secret 願望（する） or dream you can even just whisper it. And if you do, there’s a chance you’re just giving it 有効性，効力.?

'And, [then] again, you don’t want to say something out loud because what if it doesn’t happen,' she 追加するd.?

'We don’t know what will happen.?I mean, we hope, we pray, we want it to, and we feel like we have enough love and room. You know, so far, our family is just getting better.'?

While Hoda 持続するd she hadn't 'consciously thought' about 開始 up about her 採択 計画（する）s, her co-host Jenna Bush Hager said she knows why she did it.?

'She’s an open 調書をとる／予約する and authentic and transparent,' she told DailyMail.com during the 共同の interview. 'Watching her family grow over the last three, four years has been one of the most beautiful things to 証言，証人／目撃する as her friend, and so that’s why she said it. Because she can’t help but 株 her heart.'??

Jenna, 39, has three children of her own ― Mila, eight, Poppy, five, and Hal, two ― and she has spoken to Hoda about what special gift it is to watch your children love each other.?

開始 up: In November, Hoda told DailyMail.com that she and Joel (pictured with Haley and Hope) 'feel like they have enough love' to 株 with a third child?

Joy: Hoda was 52 when she 可決する・採択するd Haley in February 2017, and the couple welcomed Hope two years later, 発表するing her 採択 in April 2019

'Now she’s seen it. She’s seen Haley give Hope a 抱擁する and 持つ／拘留する 手渡すs and reach for each other and say "sissy,"' the former first daughter said. 'Watching that love is one of the best gifts in life.'?

Hoda, who was 診断するd with breast 癌 when she was 42 years old, （機の）カム out of 治療 unable to conceive and believed for a long time that motherhood just wasn't in the cards for her.

However, a １０年間 later, the Today host began considering 採択 ― an idea that she decided to discuss with her then-boyfriend Joel.??

The financier?was すぐに on-board, and Hoda 明らかにする／漏らすd that his enthusiastic reaction moved her to 涙／ほころびs.??

'I am lucky that I have an incredible life partner who was so supportive and so open to it,' Hoda told DailyMail.com in 2018.??

Hoda was 52 years old when she and Joel 可決する・採択する d Haley in February 2017, making her a mom for the first time. Two years later, they welcomed Hope in April 2019.

採択 is not the only life change that has been 延期するd for Hoda as a result of the pandemic.?

The Today host was also 軍隊d to put her wedding to longtime partner Joel on 持つ／拘留する. They had 初めは planned to tie the knot in Mexico - where they got engaged - last year, but when it became （疑いを）晴らす that their 目的地 儀式 wasn't going to happen, they chose to wait until it was 安全な for everyone to travel again.?

However, Hoda recently 認める that Joel is angling for the couple to 'just go already', with her co-host Jenna joking that it wouldn't surprise her if the pair just '（機の）カム 支援する from one 週末' and 発表するd that they had 結婚する.??