'Grey's Anatomy' star Kelly McCreary describes 'stressful' birth of daughter Indigo

Kelly McCreary is officially a mom!

The Grey's Anatomy star opened up to People about the birth of her daughter, Indigo Wren, her first child with her husband, Pete Chatmon. The couple welcomed the baby Oct. 3 in Los Angeles.

"We had planned a lovely, intimate home birth, but my bag of waters broke several weeks early, so I wound up delivering in the hospital," McCreary, 40, told the outlet. "Like many birthing people, about the only thing that went according to our birth plan was that the baby came out! I was just so relieved that we both made it through safely. Indigo had to spend some time in the NICU to finish cooking, but fortunately, there were no other complications. She is home and healthy!"

She added: 

"As stressful as it was to have Indigo in the NICU, it also meant we had a lot of parenting support in the early days. We were able to enter into parenthood with a little more sleep and a lot more knowledge than we might have otherwise had thanks to the incredible medical professionals at Cedars Sinai. "Emotionally, it has been a roller coaster, of course. Mostly highs, but also many moments of self-doubt and worry and guilt. I am grateful for an incredibly supportive family and community and so lucky to have several close friends who are also new moms and are sharing this journey with me. I want to model wellness and mindfulness for Indigo, so I'm also integrating as much of those practices back into our schedule as I can, which is good for us both."

McCreary publicly revealed her pregnancy in August: