"A lot of people think I'm insane but I'm so comfortable with bees so it was never something I had anxiety about," Mueller told SWNS. SWNS Mueller fed the bees sugar so they wouldn't get hangry on her, then got them to settle on her swollen stomach by holding the queen bee in her hand. SWNS Beekeeper Emily Mueller, 33, struck a pose with the swarm of honey bees for her maternity photo shoot. SWNS Mueller, who runs a bee removal service with her husband, got called to take care of a hive nearby the same day she had scheduled the maternity shoot. SWNS Emily Mueller is a full-time beekeeper in her South Akron town. SWNS Emily Mueller says she's happy that her photo shoot can raise awareness about how gentle bees are. SWNS Ad Up Next Baby boomers are way messier than millennials You won’t be able to scrub this from your memory.... 6 View Slideshow Back Continue Share this: Facebook 
 
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 The image of 20,000 bees latched onto a pregnant woman doesn’t exactly suggest maternal bliss. But for one Ohio woman, the swarm was picture-perfect. 
 
 Beekeeper Emily Mueller, 33, recently struck a pose with a swarm of honeybees, braving stings and internet scorn for the buzzy pics. 
 
 “Bees have been a huge part of our lives for the past few years so I wanted to incorporate them into something important to me — like my maternity photos,” the south Akron mother of three told South West News Service. “Bees represent life and death and they are very spiritual creatures.” 
 
 Mueller, who runs a bee-removal service with her husband, got called to take care of a hive nearby the same day she had scheduled the maternity shoot. Instead of rescheduling, she decided to incorporate the bees into the photos. She fed them sugar so they wouldn’t get hangry on her, then got them to settle on her stomach by holding the queen bee in a cage in her hand. 
 
 The photos have been making the rounds online, with many alarmed responses about her unborn child’s safety. But Mueller wasn’t too worried. 
 
 “A lot of people think I’m insane but I’m so comfortable with bees, so it was never something I had anxiety about,” the professional beekeeper told SWNS. 
 
 The actual sensation, Mueller said, felt pretty good: “Having them all on me was this clinging sensation. They all stick to you and they are very warm, so it’s almost like when a kitten is walking on you.” 
 
 She did get stung three times during the shoot, but says it was worth it for those photos, and the chance to give bees a better rep. “I just want to raise awareness about how gentle they are.” ||||| CLOSE Emily Mueller is a honey bee activist and says taking her maternity photos with a swarm of bees covering her is everything she ever wanted. 
 
 Photographer Kendrah Damis snapped pictures of Emily Mueller covered in bees. (Photo: Screenshot) 
 
 When Emily Mueller posed with a swarm of honeybees in an August maternity shoot, it took no time before everyone around the world was buzzing about the photos. 
 
 Months later, the Akron honeybee rescuer and chair of the master beekeeping program for the Ohio State Beekeeper's Association has revealed a heartbreaking update. 
 
 On Sunday, Mueller shared on Facebook that her baby, a boy, was "born an angel." 
 
 In a separate Facebook post on Monday, Mueller detailed the story of her stillbirth so others that have experienced it could "go through grieving of their own." 
 
 "Yesterday evening we had to hand over our precious child and say goodbye to his physical body forever," Mueller wrote in the post about about Emersyn Jacob, the name given by her and her husband Ryan upon learning of his passing. 
 
 Mueller, who has three other children, said in the post she was preparing for an upcoming event and was so busy she hadn't paid attention to fetal movement. 
 
 "Who truly does when you've been this far along 3 times before and everything has been completely normal," she wrote. "By evening I began to realize I had not felt baby move much and had contractions that felt different than any I have had before." 
 
 When Mueller began to become more unsettled about the movement, she and her husband went to her midwife's office to check for a heartbeat. 
 
 It was there that the couple, along with their youngest son and daughter, learned six days before the due date their Emersyn had died. 
 
 "Every detail of that moment is forever sketched into my mind and I cannot stop replaying it," Mueller wrote. "Dr. Sutter sat on my right side looking at the screen and turned to me and said, 'Your baby has passed.' 
 
 "Our baby has died. Our baby will never come home with us," Mueller wrote. "This wonderful rainbow baby we were blessed with has now become a storm in our lives." 
 
 The Muellers found out Emersyn was a boy after they had returned from the hospital because the family, who had previously been waiting to find out his gender until he was born, "wanted to know who we were mourning." 
 
 The next day, the family met and let go of Emersyn, who Mueller believes died from a blood clotting issue that has caused several of her family members to suffer miscarriages. 
 
 Thanks to Sufficient Grace Ministries, an organization based in Deshler, Ohio, the family not only was able to get Emersyn's footprints on keepsake items and receive newborn photos, but they received an outpouring of support "at the cost of absolutely nothing." 
 
 "It felt like we had Emersyn for a day; for one day we got to give him all of us and to do important things that mattered." 
 
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– An Ohio mom whose photos from her maternity shoot went viral over the summer shared sad news online this weekend: The baby she'd been carrying, a little boy she and her husband named Emersyn Jacob, died in utero, reports the Cincinnati Enquirer. Emily Mueller, who runs a honeybee rescue service and has three kids ages 1 to 10, had posed with 20,000 bees swarming around her pregnant belly, prompting alarmed reactions from viewers. But Mueller tells the Times Reporter the bees had nothing to do with her fourth child's death, which she announced on Facebook on Sunday. "It is with the most deepening sadness I share that our sweet Emersyn Jacob was born an angel yesterday," she wrote. In a separate post, Mueller documents how she and her husband, Ryan, had found out about the stillbirth, which she believes may have been caused by a hereditary blood-clotting issue. She explains that after being distracted by preparations for the baby's arrival, she suddenly realized last week—just days before her due date—she hadn't felt much movement lately. She couldn't find the baby's heartbeat with her home fetal heart monitor, so she went to the doctor the next day, where her worst fears were confirmed. "Your baby has passed," the attending doctor told her. She talks about the "unfathomable" pain of that news, as well as having to give birth to her deceased son. But she also thanks the staff who helped her family, and a local nonprofit that assists bereaved parents. The group arranged for keepsake items and a photo session with the baby. "For one day we got to give [Emersyn] all of us and to do important things that mattered," Mueller writes. She posted a photo of her husband holding Emersyn's hand, as well as one showing the baby in a bee-adorned outfit, with the simple caption: "Our little beekeeper." (A stillbirth story that led to help for others.)