Lena Dunham has welcomed her first child with her husband, Luis Felber, via surrogate.<\/p>\n
The 40-year-old writer and actor, known for her creation of and role in the HBO television series Girls, revealed her daughter\u2019s birth in a Vogue op-ed<\/a> published on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Dunham\u2019s daughter arrived 13 days later than expected, with Dunham writing: \u201cI sat on a hospital bed, between the legs of a woman I hadn\u2019t known a year ago, waiting for a glimpse of this person who I had been waiting for with something related to patience, but also none at all. I was so focused on our surrogate \u2013 in awe at her concentration, her period of quiet followed by what sounded like a roar \u2013 I forgot to look down until I heard our baby\u2019s cry.<\/p>\n \u201cI saw her face, gasping just as she did. Her eyes, wide and unfocused, taking in the light and shadow, blinking rapidly,\u201d Dunham wrote, adding: \u201c\u2018Hello,\u2019 I said. \u2018I\u2019m your mama. You \u2026 you look nothing like I thought you would, but exactly right. We\u2019ve been waiting for you, do you know that? It was so nice of you to come.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n She went on to describe herself as feeling \u201cbashful and dizzy with joy\u201d.<\/p>\n Dunham has faced a series of fertility issues that she has publicly spoken about, including nearly two decades of advanced endometriosis as well as undergoing a total hysterectomy at 31 years old.<\/p>\n