\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFour mothers at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh recently gave birth to triplets, a rare event in modern times. Mothers describe the experienceThe mothers described their experience as overwhelming but praised the hospital’s doctors and nursing staff for their support in making the transition to parenting triplets easier. “Lots of alarms. Beeps make you a little hesitant, but the nurses are very reassuring. So, that’s very nice. It’s comforting to know that there are cameras that we can check in on them whenever we want and see them. And my family also likes that because we have family far away. So, they’re constantly checking. And one took a bottle yesterday for the first time and my brother was the first to text, ‘Hey, I saw a note in his little home that he took the bottle,'” mother Monica Wilden said. The triplets are currently in the neonatal intensive care unit to gain strength after being delivered early, which is common in multiple births. Triplet births becoming less commonTriplet births are increasingly rare.According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the triplet and multiple birth rate in the United States declined by 62% between 1998 and 2023.The rate dropped from 193 per 100,000 total births to 73 per 100,000.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Four mothers at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh recently gave birth to triplets, a rare event in modern times. <\/p>\n
Mothers describe the experience<\/p>\n
The mothers described their experience as overwhelming but praised the hospital’s doctors and nursing staff for their support in making the transition to parenting triplets easier. <\/p>\n
“Lots of alarms. Beeps make you a little hesitant, but the nurses are very reassuring. So, that’s very nice. It’s comforting to know that there are cameras that we can check in on them whenever we want and see them. And my family also likes that because we have family far away. So, they’re constantly checking. And one took a bottle yesterday for the first time and my brother was the first to text, ‘Hey, I saw a note in his little home that he took the bottle,'” mother Monica Wilden said. <\/p>\n
The triplets are currently in the neonatal intensive care unit to gain strength after being delivered early, which is common in multiple births. <\/p>\n
Triplet births becoming less common\t<\/p>\n
Triplet births are increasingly rare.<\/p>\n
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the triplet and multiple birth rate in the United States declined by 62% between 1998 and 2023.<\/p>\n
The rate dropped from 193 per 100,000 total births to 73 per 100,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four mothers at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh recently gave birth to triplets, a rare event in modern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37824,41076,97155,4925,98898,98899,2922,98901,14119,98900,83549,98903,28,30,57123,29,73,98902,97154,97152],"class_list":["post-228297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-alarm","tag-birth","tag-bottle-yesterday","tag-doctor","tag-four-mothers","tag-gave-birth-to-triplets","tag-lot","tag-modern-time","tag-mother","tag-multiple-birth","tag-nursing-staff","tag-parenting-triplet","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-hospital","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-rare-event","tag-triplet","tag-west-penn-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228297","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=228297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}