Happy Birthday, Anne!
Or maybe you could just be Buffy, he'll see your amazing heart, and he'll fall in love with you.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JenP - Jan 30, 2009 3:53:16 am PST #4201 of 30000
Anne W. - Jan 30, 2009 3:55:03 am PST #4202 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Thank you for the birthday wishes, all!
As of today, I am officially in my forties. It doesn't feel as momentous (for good or for ill) as I thought it would.
amych - Jan 30, 2009 3:58:50 am PST #4203 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Happy birthday, Anne!
Ginger - Jan 30, 2009 4:02:40 am PST #4204 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
My DH and I were discussing what we'd name octuplets.
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder and Blitzen.
I'm judgey. I think it's wrong, in the same way that driving three Hummers is wrong.
Sue - Jan 30, 2009 4:06:28 am PST #4205 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Happy Birthday Anne!
Emily - Jan 30, 2009 4:09:59 am PST #4206 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I thought they generally stuck in bunches.
flea - Jan 30, 2009 4:20:00 am PST #4207 of 30000
information libertarian
My understanding of current IVF best practices - and I am happy to be corrected, since I have no personal experience and am drawing mainly from blog-reading and book-reading - is that if the woman is under 35 and has a good fertility history (both true here, assuming this woman's six existing children are children she gave birth to) you transfer two embryos, and even consider transferring only one. To get 8 babies, probably at least 4 embryos were transferred (which would mean 4 cases of spontaneous twinning), and very likely more.
I was very surprised to hear this was an IVF case. Super-multiples have tended to be from fertility drugs (i.e. stimulating the ovaries resulting in multiple ovulations and multiple fertilizations - and even in those cases, the doctors are supposed to monitor the number of ovulations and not fertilize if, say, 8 eggs were released.)
CaBil - Jan 30, 2009 4:30:14 am PST #4208 of 30000
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Happy birthday Anne!
Lee - Jan 30, 2009 4:32:46 am PST #4209 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Happy Birthday Anne!
Jesse - Jan 30, 2009 4:35:58 am PST #4210 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just can't imagine 8 babies. I mean, I can imagine it, since I have worked in a daycare center, but I can't imagine doing it at home.
On the "best practices" front, the article linked says:
Under the guidelines of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, U.S. doctors normally would not implant more than two embryos at a time in a woman under the age of 35. After that age it is more difficult to become pregnant. The mother of the octuplets is believed to be 33, based on available public records.
and
Hospital officials said the woman came to Kaiser already in her 12th week of pregnancy. They did not say where she received the fertility treatment.