'After 5 years of trying' Keith Powell and wife Jill Knox announce birth of baby girl

Keith Powell and his wife, Jill Knox, welcomed a healthy baby girl on Saturday. 

The former "30 Rock" star took to social media to announce the birth of his daughter with a sweet message and photo of her little fingers next to a necklace with a "Greyson" nameplate.

"After 5 years of trying, and the loss of our dear sweet stillborn Greyson last year, my wife and I are proud and happy to announce the birth of our daughter, Dolyn Reed Powell (Dolyn, short for Gwendolyn, my grandmother’s name) on 3/9/19. Love!" wrote Powell to Twitter. 

Knox also shared the somewhat scary journey of her daughter's arrival to social media, saying that she had almost given birth to a pre-term baby and that due to complications, she ended up having an emergency cesarean section.

"I went in to see my doctor on Tuesday for my 2x week baby monitoring and he saw some variables in her heart rate that he didn’t feel comfortable with. He sent me to check in to the hospital, hoping to induce me that day. Two days shy of 37 weeks would have made Dolyn (short for Gwendolyn - Keith’s Grandmother) a pre-term baby, and the head of Maternal Fetal Care was NOT having it. *Word on the street is that Miranda Bailey on Grey’s Anatomy is based on this doctor,*" Knox wrote to Instagram adding that she spent three days attached to a monitor until her body went into labor. 

"The baby’s heart rate was decreasing by the contraction and they decided to pull her, worried that she wasn’t getting enough oxygen," the new mom wrote. "I know emergency C-Sections happen everyday but after what happened last year we couldn’t help but be absolutely terrified."

Around this same time last year, Powell shared that he and his wife had lost their son. 

"After 39 weeks and 5 days of carrying our baby boy, and after 33 hours of induced labor, Jill delivered our beautiful beautiful stillborn son," the actor wrote to Instagram. "Our hearts are shattered. RIP GREYSON KNOX POWELL. Your mom and dad love you so much."

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