Past Events

Mother to-be Tea

iCare Press — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:33:32 +0000

Gea speaking at the event.March 29, 2011 at Childish Couture in Encinitas with guest speaker Gea Meijering of The First 8 Days of Being a Mom. And information about C-Panty, Delfin Spa, Pacificord, Jujubeecouture and Showerhug.

Natural Baby Fair May 23rd San Diego

iCare Press — Tue, 25 May 2010 03:38:52 +0000

Dionne of Smart Choices and Gea of iCare PressOn Sunday May 23rd Gea of The First 8 Days of Being a Mom and Dionna Whitehead of SmartChoices teamed up at the Natural Baby Fair in San Diego. Smart Choices, the makers of Mother's First Day Kit and purveyors of high quality products dedicated to making the new mom's life more comfortable brought an array of product samples for visitors of the fair to see, touch and buy. Gea brought her books and presented her story at the main stage to a select audience. A raffle with as price a complete Mother's First Day's kit including the manual was part of the booth. Anyone who entered a card will get an e-mail with the winner of the kit.

Welcome to Motherhood. A look into the postpartum fase.

iCare Press — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:47:28 +0000

The ICAN of San Diego invited author Gea to share her special story about delivering and receiving postpartum care on two different continents within 20 months and the manual she translated “The First 8 Days of Being a Mom”. She was accompanied by postpartum doula Doris E. Kitchin PCD, DONA. It was an interesting evening with ...........

Family Fest in Griffith Park

iCare Press — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:16:23 +0000

The Doula association of Southern California organized a Family Fest on May 9th in Griffith Park, LA. Melissa and Gea showed The First 8 Days of Being a Mom to a crowd of doula’s, pregnant woman and families of all kinds. As you can see it was a lovely day with information, music, a panel discussion and a book signing for YourBestBirth, the newly released book by Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein and of course we signed our book;-) We also raffled off a book which was won by Patricia from Burbank. Yay!

Gea flanked by Abby Epstein and Ricki Lake of 'YourBestBirth'

Melissa and Gea wish the pregnant family the best of everything on the pending adventure as they purchage a copy of The First 8 Days.

Speaking at the Moms Club of Laguna Niguel

iCare Press — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:03:46 +0000

The moms of the Moms Club of Laguna Niguel invited us to share our story and book on March 3rd 2009. Melissa and Gea did their very first performance as author and editor and welcomed a lot of questions. We found an enthousiastic crowd and even got a first hand recommendation of a friend who already used the manual and raved about it. The dad liked it too. Books where signed and taken home for themselves and friends as a babyshower gift. It was a lovely morning.