Are you an expert on IVF?
http://www.ivf-infertility.com/infertility/infertility5.php
As one who has gone through the process, both terms, implant and transfer, are proper, while implanting “multiple embryos” is not.
Most reputable IVF programs adhere to guide lines limiting embryo transfers. Embryos do split but the chances are rare.
From your link:
“Not all embryos implant and not all implanted embryos will further develop to fetuses, and not all fetuses end in healthy babies.”
People may use the term implant, but it’s used incorrectly. The doctor transfers the embryo. It’s basically a crap shoot if they are going to implant.
Most IVF clinics will “implant multiple embryos” in appropriate situations, but not 8, and not even more than 2-3 in a young woman who has had any babies already (much less twins just 2 years ago). It’s frequently done for a patient like a childless 42 year old whose 2+ previous IVF cycles have resulted in no babies, and whose embryos can reasonably be presumed to be between 90% and 100% non-viable due to aneuploidies and other problems.
Nothing makes sense here, and I would caution that the only source of the “implanted embryos” information is the mother, who may be unclear about the technical details and terminology of fertility treatments, and whose statements are being filtered through random journalists (the mother apparently said something about a “husband” going back to Iraq to work, but depending on which media source you read, this is assumed to mean either the husband of the octuplets’ mother, or the husband of the grandmother).
Fox News (or CNN) had some doctors on the other night. While there are no official guidelines, one doctor said the standard limit was 4 embryos for transfer.