(forwarded from the lovely Miss Bad Kitty 2005 + 2006 aka, MISS FLIPSIDE 2006!)

Hi everyone,

Just getting time to send out an email. Colin and I met our beautiful daugher Isabella on Tuesday, August 7, at 5:51 a.m. I started labor about 8 am on the 6th, and we managed to have a drug-free, intervention-free birth and follow our birth plan. Very cool and beautiful, with a midwife on the ground and this birthing stool that let me lean back on Colin. I got to catch her as she came out, and Colin cut the cord. Colin's mom and dad were there too. Colin was amazing through the whole thing, and Izzy bonded with him right away. I was feeling good enough to be getting vitamins at Whole Foods the next day, but I'm pretty tired now :)

All parties are happy and healthy, and the dogs are madly in love with the baby already. Kitty is back to being completely noncomplacent.

Love to all,
Melissa, Colin, and Isabella