Girls creator Lena Dunham welcomes lassie bairn born via surrogate

Lena Dunham has waled in her first bairn wi her husband, Luis Felber, throu the help o a surrogate.

The 40-year-auld writer and actor, weel-kent for her creation o and role in the HBO telly series Girls, revealed the birth o her lassie in a Vogue op-ed set furth on Wednesday.

Dunham’s dochter cam thirteen days later than they had lookit for, wi Dunham writin: “I sat on a hospital bed, atween the legs o a wumman I hadna kent a year syne, waitin for a glisk o this person I had been waitin on wi summat relatit tae patience, but also nane at a. I was sae focused on our surrogate – in awe at her concentration, her period o quateness follaed by whit soondit like a roar – I forgaet tae look doun until I heard our bairn’s cry.

“I saw her face, gaspin juist as she did. Her een, wide and unfocused, takin in the licht and shadow, blinkin fast,” Dunham wrate, addin: “Hello, I said. I’m your mither. Ye … ye look naething like I thocht ye wad, but exactly richt. We’ve been waitin for ye, dae ye ken that? It was sae nice o ye tae come.”

She gaed on tae describe hersel as feelin “bashfu and dizzy wi joy”.

Dunham has faced a wheen o fertility issues that she has publickly spak aboot, includin near twa decades o advanced endometriosis as weel as undergaein a tot hysterectomy at 31 years auld.

In a 2020 essay in Harper’s Magazine, Dunham explained her decision tae walk awa frae whit she described as the “fertility-industrial complex” efter an unsuccessfu IVF cycle.

“The moment I lost my fertility I stairtit searchin for a bairn. At age 31, efter amaist twa decades o chronic pain caused by endometriosis and its little-studied ravages, I had my womb, my cervix, and ane o my ovaries removit,” Dunham wrate at the time.

“Afore than, mitherhood had seemed likely but no urgent, as inevitabl as growin oot o jean shorts, but in the days efter my surgery I became keenly obsessed wi it,” she addit.