These newborn babies dressed as pickles. It's a really big dill

 

It's impossible not to smile at these newborn babies all dressed as pickles. Yes, pickles.

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Hospital dressed up the babies as pickles in honor of Picklesburgh, Pittsburgh's annual food festival dedicated to the briney snack.

Pickle Baby 1

"We've been thrilled with the community feedback we've received, but we have never had quite a gift like this that we've received from our community with these little gherkins," Jeremy Waldrup, president and CEO of Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, said in a video made by the hospital.

Pickle Baby 2

The staff at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital outfitted newborn babies in adorable green pickle suits that a hospital nurse knitted especially for the event. The babies wore fitted green blankets, complete with bumps (just like you'd find on a real pickle) and green caps.

Each baby was also given a T-shirt that read, "Special Dill-evry."

Pickle Baby 3

Are pickles the most common pregnancy craving?

These pickles outfits were also playful spin since pickles are often said to be a traditional pregnancy craving for some moms.

So, how common are these pregnancy cravings? Are pickles really the most desirable snack for soon-to-be moms? It's probably an "old wives tale," Dr. Jacques Moritz, an assistant professor at Mount Sinai Medical Center, explained.

Cravings, from pickles to ice cream or carbs vary person to person, Moritz said. While they're often blamed on hormones, there's no medical study to back that up. He used pickles as an example for when a pregnant woman has too much alkaline in their body, and need something more acidic, like pickles.

Whether you're feeling pickled by these cravings or feeling sour about it, we hope you found these babies dressed as pickles as dill-lightful as we did.