Robert and Jessica Easterling announce the birth of their daughter, Michaela Melba Rose Easterling. She was born at King’s Daughters Medical Center in Ashland, Ky. She weighed 7 pounds 6 ounces and was 21 inches long.

She is the maternal granddaughter of John and Joyce Strait, of Chesapeake, Va. and Patricia Strait, of Sunbury, N.C. She is the paternal granddaughter of Robert Easterling, of Ironton and Jeffery and Rose Palmer, of Pedro.