It's Octuplets!

We have successfully conceived octuplets! 8 of our eggs fertilized normally and the other 4 all either fertilized abnormally or were empty cells. I'm pretty happy with the report and I hope we have 2 good ones left to transfer! I don't know yet if we will have a 3 or 5 day transfer. Apparently the lab has a policy that says if you have less than 10 normally fertilized eggs they will tentatively schedule a 3 day transfer, but I didn't understand that this was a tentative thing when the embryologist told me that we had a time for the transfer on Friday at noon. I had a minor freak out wondering if this meant that there was something wrong with our embryos and she has such a thick accent that there was a slight communication problem there. So, I called Dr. D's office and they called the embryologist and confirmed that it was just tentative so I wouldn't be caught off guard if it is a last minute decision on Friday to proceed with the transfer. Whew! There is still a pretty decent chance that the transfer will be Sunday. The decision will be made on Friday morning and will be based on how many embies look good at that point. If we have only 2-3, then they will go ahead and do the transfer because I'm a better incubater than the petri dish, but if we have more, then we will probably go out to a 5 day to help ensure that we put the best quality embies back as possible.

I'm sending tons of prayers and positive vibes to our little embies cooking in the lab!

Just an update - I just spoke with another embryologist who apologized for the confusion earlier. I guess the girl that called me this morning is still training which explains a whole lot! I had the feeling that she was as confused as I was. Now, I have a much better understanding of what is going to happen. They will not check the embies tomorrow because they feel that the less they have to take them out of the incubators, the better, so I will not receive a call tomorrow - ACK!! We'll just keep sending those positive vibes their way! They will check them relatively early Friday morning and I'll get a call before 9 AM with the news on transfer day. How am I going to make it through these next couple days?!