{"id":223601,"date":"2026-06-20T01:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T01:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223601\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T01:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T01:59:09","slug":"4-sets-of-triplets-born-at-hospital-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223601\/","title":{"rendered":"4 sets of triplets born at hospital in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors at Allegheny Health Networks&#8217; West Penn Hospital delivered four sets of triplets recently.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hospital announced the baby boom in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ahntoday\/p\/DZx8UcSGNqa\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-absolute=\"true\">Instagram post<\/a> on Friday, saying it helped welcome &#8220;an astonishing four sets of triplets, bringing triple the joy to their proud parents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After being born, the babies were taken to the neonatal intensive care unit to get extra support from Allegheny Health Network&#8217;s team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;West Penn Hospital is home to a Level 3 NICU and provides tiny patients like these the specialized care they need to start their amazing journeys,&#8221; the Instagram post added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From 1998 to 2023, the triplet and multiple birth rate in the United States declined 62%, according to a report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db512.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/a>\u00a0The report says the birth rate went from 193.5 per 100,000 total births to 73.8 per 100,000 total births.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doctors at Allegheny Health Networks&#8217; West Penn Hospital delivered four sets of triplets recently.\u00a0 The hospital announced the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2123,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-223601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-health-network","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223601","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=223601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}