On Wednesday, Dec. 3, "Grey's Anatomy" actress Sarah Drew welcomed her second child with husband Peter Lanfer, three weeks prior to the due date.

Despite the baby's early arrival, E! News reports that Drew's baby girl, whose name is Hannah Mali Rose, is "happy and healthy," weighing in at 6 lbs 14 oz. and measuring 21 inches long.

"We are thrilled to welcome baby Hannah Mali Rose to our family," Drew and Lanfer said in a statement to E! News. "Although we kept her gender a surprise until her birthday, [our son] Micah somehow knew she'd be a girl from the moment we told him we were pregnant. He is over the moon to be big brother to sweet Hannah."

In May, prior to the birth of her second child, Drew wrote an essay for Guidepost that detailed the worries and fears of parenthood she encounted she was pregnant with her first child, Micah.

"I was terrified, absolutely terrified, by the prospect of parenthood," she wrote. "What if I turned out to be an awful mom? It would be hard -- if not impossible -- to live up to the example set by my own parents."

Later on during her first pregnancy, Drew experienced another scare when doctors were forced to induce her labor as a result of abdominal pains she was experiencing the night before Micah's birth.

In a past interview with Fit Magazine, Drew explained that she "wanted to try a natural birth" with Micah. However, "she ended up having pregnancy toxemia."

"I was in horrific upper abdominal pain the whole night before he was born, and when I went to the hospital, they said, 'We need to induce,'" she added. "I cried about it. And then, dude, if I could get induced and get drugs and have every baby that way ... it was amazing! I got the epidural and, within an hour, they gave me the Pitocin. He was out in six hours."

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