{"id":224709,"date":"2026-06-22T03:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T03:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/224709\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T03:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T03:50:19","slug":"pittsburgh-hospital-sees-rare-boom-of-4-triplet-births","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/224709\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh hospital sees rare boom of 4 triplet births"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four mothers deliver triplets at a Pittsburgh hospital in rare baby boom<\/p>\n<p>West Penn Hospital currently has four sets of triplets<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/e1a85d48-e194-405d-81a9-0077595366af_1493386254.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Kelly Sasso\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Allegheny Health Network in Western Pennsylvania announced that four mothers recently delivered sets of triplets at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">On Friday, sister station WTAE met three of those moms. They say that their experience has been overwhelming, but they praised the doctors and nursing staff for making the transition a little easier.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">&#8220;Lots of alarms and beeps make you a little hesitant, but the nurses are very reassuring, so that&#8217;s very nice, and comforting to know that there&#8217;s cameras that we can check in on them whenever we want and see them,&#8221; said Monica Wilden, of Indiana. &#8220;My family also likes that because we have family far away, so they&#8217;re constantly checking. One took a bottle yesterday for the first time, and my brother was the first to text, &#8216;Hey, I saw a note in his little home that he took the bottle.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The babies are currently in the NICU to grow stronger after being delivered early, which is mostly normal with multiples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four mothers deliver triplets at a Pittsburgh hospital in rare baby boom West Penn Hospital currently has four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[97585,900,97583,2123,23795,97155,4925,21292,1510,4327,6111,97587,97586,10744,2922,32821,97579,14119,22416,97578,97580,39479,83549,73,75,17450,74,97581,97584,13297,70578,97154,97582,97153,97152,1419],"class_list":["post-224709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-4c33-aefe-26ef136f43d4","tag-action-news","tag-aligncenter","tag-allegheny-health-network","tag-babies","tag-bottle-yesterday","tag-doctor","tag-doctors","tag-family","tag-friday","tag-hospital","tag-id8c6109fd-a53f-4a8b-8551-a9a9350c5f50","tag-idd85d903e-2226","tag-indiana","tag-lot","tag-mom","tag-monica-wilden","tag-mother","tag-mothers","tag-multiple-births","tag-newborns","tag-nicu","tag-nursing-staff","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-hospital","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-premature-babies","tag-rare-boom","tag-set","tag-sister-station-wtae","tag-triplet","tag-triplet-birth","tag-triplets","tag-west-penn-hospital","tag-western-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224709","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=224709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}