Hoda Kotb is sharing new details about the health crisis that kept Hope, her young daughter, in intensive care for several days and, later, hospitalized for over a week last year.

The Today co-host told People in an interview published Wednesday that she and her family have been focused on trying to make everything normal as they settle into a long-term plan to maintain the 4-year-old girls health.

We had a scary stretch, Kotb explained. Any parent whos been through a scary thing with their child understands. Its like you just cant believe that your childs sick. You cant believe that theres nothing you can do. You cant believe that no matter what you do, you cant will it away or protect her, or all the things that were supposed to be doing as parents. And its a position Ive never found myself in.

In February of last year, Kotb took two weeks off of Today as she tended to Hope during her illness. The journalist has never publicly disclosed her daughters diagnosis due to the childs age, but has previously said that her condition required constant monitoring by medical professionals at first.