This Month

CRM holds a free monthly IVF meeting for established patients. The seminar is held the second Wednesday of each month from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Winter Park Civic Center. To register, call Kim at 407-740-8518.

Each Month (typically the last Thursday of the month from noon to 1:30 p.m.)

Peer Support Lunches - The next Peer Support Lunch will be Thursday, June 28, 2007, from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Cheesecake Factory in the Winter Park Village. This lunch is sponsored by King's Pharmacy. Please RSVP to Katryna at kelmer@IVFOrlando.com or 407-740-0909. Lunches are limited to 15 people.

Saturday May 12, 2007

Join us for CRM’s 2nd annual Joy of Parenthood 5K at beautiful Lake Eola Park in downtown Orlando. Nearly 400 people joined CRM at last year's inaugural event, where both the City of Orlando and the City of Winter Park accepted a proclamation from CRM declaring Mother's Day weekend as Infertility Awareness Weekend. The Joy of Parenthood 5K celebrates with those families who have overcome their struggles with infertility, remembers those still battling, and raises money for Dreams Conceived, Inc., a nonprofit public charity helping couples who cannot afford necessary treatments they need to build a family. The Joy of Parenthood 5K family-oriented - strollers welcome! - and open to the entire Central Florida community and beyond. This year's event offers cash prizes for winners and will be chip-timed for those competitive runners, while maintaining a noncompetitive atmosphere for families with small children.

After the 5K, please join us in Lake Eola Park for children's games, special contests, and Infertility One-on-One, an infertility health fair. Our vendors look forward to answering all of your fertility questions.

To sponsor the next celebration — and have your name on the event’s T-shirt and publications — contact Stephanie Doyle at sdoyle@ivforlando.com or 407-740-0909.

Hurricane Katrina Relief

CRM sent four employees to travel to areas damaged by Hurricane Katrina. They stayed at a church in Diamondhead, Miss., and fanned out each day to Waveland, Bay St. Louis and other devastated areas, bringing much needed vaccinations and medical expertise. The relief team, thanks to the generosity of CRM employees and the community, brought a truckload of toys, medical supplies, food and clothes to the area. The team also purchased a variety of tools, which were used to cut down precarious limbs and haul away debris. CRM played a significant role in bringing hope to the lives of many hurricane victims. The relief team helped cut down 117 trees, saved residents more than $165,000, and brought smiles to countless faces.

“We went into the center of the devastation and, in our own small way, made a difference,” said Al Sterling, youth minister at First Presbyterian Church of Maitland and leader of the relief trip to Mississippi. “The support of the Center for Reproductive Medicine — their considerable donation of supplies, money and manpower — was vital to this enterprise. They provided most of the medical supplies our team used, with enough leftover to sustain future teams.”

Read one CRM employee’s account of the relief trip, “Despair brings heartache, and then hope,” published in a recent CRM employee newsletter.