This year’s holiday post brought New Years greetings from Rostov in Russian. A beautiful card and an original poem written by a grateful mom was sent to us by a family who chose to come to the Mother and Child unit at the “Hadassah” University Hospital in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem. The family contacted iMER when in the second trimester the mother was classified as a high risk pregnancy. Once supplied with all of the medical records, the medical advisor at iMER referred the case to

From: Ellie …. Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 9:13 PM To: neri@cc.huji.ac.il; d.linton@imer.biz Subject: Baby Mario Alessandro P. Dear Professor Laufer, In May 2007, our special friend David Linton referred me to you RE A recurrent pelvic inflammatory disease I had and you performed laparoscopic surgery on me. My husband Andrea and myself take great pride in introducing you to our first born son Mario, he was born on the 22nd August 2008, weighing a healthy 2,965Kg with a height of 51cm. We are completely