(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of Allegheny Health Network)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to a release from Allegheny Health Netowrk yesterday, nine newborn babies at the West Penn Hospital of Allegheny Health Network in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh recently helped to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the classic comic strip “Peanuts,” written by the late cartoon creator, Charles M. Schultz. These babies were dressed up like nine well-known characters from “Peanuts,” These babies were also placed in a bassinet for medical-grade purposes which were designed to look like the red doghouse of Snoopy, the beagle of Charlie Brown. The “Peanuts” characters that these babies were dressed up as were Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy, Sally, Peppermint Patty, Schroeder, Franklin, and Woodstock. According to Dr. Marcia Klein Patel, the Chair of the AHN Women’s Institute, “This anniversary is an opportunity to celebrate all the magic and possibility of childhood, and a special reminder to the entire AHN labor and delivery team of what a privilege it is to help bring these beautiful little ‘peanuts’ into the world. Perhaps these babies will grow to be empathetic like Charlie Brown, independent like Lucy or even musically inclined like Schroeder, but no matter who these children will become, we are honored that they got their start at AHN West Penn Hospital.” “Peanuts” appeared in October of 1950, when  and ended in 2000, but ever since that year, “Peanuts” has been in syndication.