{"id":186881,"date":"2026-05-08T04:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186881\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T04:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:58:18","slug":"photos-show-newborn-babies-celebrating-first-mothers-day-in-adorable-handmade-bee-hats-at-pittsburgh-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186881\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos show newborn babies celebrating first Mother&#8217;s Day in adorable handmade bee hats at Pittsburgh hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newborn babies at Magee-Womens Hospital are celebrating their first Mother&#8217;s Day in adorable handmade bee outfits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The babies wore bee hats crocheted by hospital staff members and onesies that said &#8220;sweet as can bee.&#8221; There was also a beekeeper there to add to the excitement.<\/p>\n<p>The newborns aren&#8217;t the only bees at Magee. The hospital has had a beekeeping program since 2018, and in the summer, the two hives can have up to 60,000 to 80,000 bees each.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the first time UPMC has dressed up newborn babies to celebrate. They were swaddled in Terrible Towels for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/babies-terrible-towels-nfl-draft\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NFL draft<\/a>, wore\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/newborn-babies-valentines-day-upmc-washington\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hershey&#8217;s Kisses hats<\/a>\u00a0on Valentine&#8217;s Day, rang in the holiday season in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/newborn-babies-upmc-magee-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">gingerbread hats<\/a>\u00a0and welcomed the U.S. Open at Oakmont with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/pictures\/newborns-pittsburgh-hospital-us-open-gear\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">special gear<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can see the photos below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/upmc-magee-womens-sweet-bees-7may2026-2361.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"upmc-magee-womens-sweet-bees-7may2026-2361.jpg \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Newborn babies at Magee-Womens Hospital are celebrating their first Mother&#8217;s Day in adorable handmade bee outfits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                (Photo: UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital)<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/upmc-magee-womens-sweet-bees-7may2026-2447.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"upmc-magee-womens-sweet-bees-7may2026-2447.jpg \" height=\"930\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The babies wore bee hats handmade by hospital staff members and onesies that said &#8220;sweet as can bee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                (Photo: UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital)<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/upmc-magee-womens-sweet-bees-7may2026-2465.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"upmc-magee-womens-sweet-bees-7may2026-2465.jpg \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  There was also a beekeeper there to add to the excitement.<\/p>\n<p>                (Photo: UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital)<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/upmc-magee-womens-sweet-bees-7may2026-2391.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"upmc-magee-womens-sweet-bees-7may2026-2391.jpg \" height=\"930\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The newborns aren&#8217;t the only bees at Magee. The hospital has had a beekeeping program since 2018, and in the summer, the two hives can have up to 60,000 to 80,000 bees each.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                (Photo: UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital)<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/upmc-magee-womens-sweet-bees-7may2026-2426.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"upmc-magee-womens-sweet-bees-7may2026-2426.jpg \" height=\"930\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  UPMC says it harvested seven gallons of honey, or about 80 pounds, in 2022, and hospital chefs used it in cafeteria recipes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                (Photo: UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital)<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newborn babies at Magee-Womens Hospital are celebrating their first Mother&#8217;s Day in adorable handmade bee outfits.\u00a0 The babies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[82778,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-186881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-mother039s-day","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}