Hoda Kotb Is Taking Her Kids on 'Toot Walks' After Dinner Since Moving to Suburbs — and Jenna Bush Hager Has Some Thoughts

Kotb recently moved to the suburbs of New York City with daughters Hope and Haley

Hoda Kotb is introducing her girls to many new things now that they live in the suburbs — including going on a few different kinds of walks.

On the Friday, Sept. 6 episode of Today with Hoda & Jenna, the mom of two shared that her family of three has been going on walks after dinner to get things moving, gastrically.

"By the way, can I tell you something? You know what we started doing, by the way, now that we started living in the suburbs?" Kotb, 60, began. "We started going on — I’m not going to use the word — but ‘toot’ walks after dinner."

"Y’all should try it. It’s great," Kotb said to co-host Jenna Bush Hager, who looked very surprised by her friend's suggestion. "You take the kids out, everybody goes out after dinner. I said, ‘We’re going on our 'walk.'"

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Related: What Is a 'Fart Walk' — and Can It Improve Your Health?

"Is that because everybody needs to every night after dinner?" Bush Hager, 42, asked, with Kotb saying it's better to pass gas outside.

Bush Hager then asked if Kotb's family eats a lot of beans or fiber.

"But it is a great idea. Think about it. You go on walks after dinner," Kotb responded.

"Yeah, but it’s not just to toot!" Bush Hager joked.

"But just call it that! The kids laugh and then go out the door faster because it’s fun," Kotb replied.

Related: Hoda Kotb Says 'Everything Changed' as Her Daughters Start New School After Moving to Suburban Town: 'It Was Awesome'

In August, Dr. Matthew Kampert, a sport and exercise medicine physician with an appointment with orthopedic and endocrinology at the Cleveland Clinic, told PEOPLE the release of gastric pressure is just one of the benefits of what he calls the "Fart Walk."

In terms of your digestion, he told PEOPLE “after you have a meal, you have what's called the gastrocolic reflex. So whenever you put things in your mouth and you eat and you swallow, it stimulates your gut to move things forward. So it makes room for the food that you're eating.”

“So that's going stimulate things to empty from your stomach and your small intestine and your colon," Kampert told PEOPLE. "The colon is where most of the bacteria is. It makes the gas.” 

In August, Kotb shared why she moved her two kids out of New York City and into the suburbs.

"I want my kids to feel grass on their feet, and play in the yard, and ride bikes down the street, and run up and down the stairs," she shared. "I just see that life for them in this perfect house in this beautiful little town where I know they'll be able to blossom into beautiful, independent, strong women."

The timing is especially right for Kotb, who noted that she's in a "repotting phase" of her life.

"It's like my roots need a bigger pot," she said. "You know when you take a plant out of a pot, and it's roots are all twisted and tight? And then you put it in a bigger pot with fresh new soil and it just grows bigger and stronger? That's the journey I'm on right now. And it's going to hurt a little, to leave that pot that was so comfortable for so long. But in the end, it's going to be exactly what we need."

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