<p class="title">Six-time Olympic gold medallist Allyson Felix gave birth to a baby girl via emergency C-section last month and despite the premature birth, both mother and child were "doing fine," US Track and Field said on Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Medical complications required the baby, named Camryn, to be born at 32 weeks and she will need additional time in the neonatal intensive care unit before she can come home.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I'm trying to be open to what God has in store for me and my family," Felix wrote in a message posted to the team's website.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I still feel nervous and vulnerable. But I also feel brave and excited. Every day I sit with my daughter in the NICU and watch her fight. Every day she gets stronger and more beautiful."</p>.<p class="bodytext">News of the birth came as a surprise to her fans since the Los Angeles native had not previously said she was pregnant.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The 33-year-old sprinter, the most decorated American woman in track and field history, was set to announce her pregnancy before the emergency C-section on Nov 28 derailed those plans.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Felix said she planned to compete at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 and would run with a new sense of purpose.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I'm not just running to win the most medals anymore," she said in a first-person article published by ESPN on Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"If I come back and I'm just not the same, if I can't make a fifth Olympic team, I'm gonna know that I fought, that I was determined, and that I gave it my absolute all.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"And if it doesn't end up the way I imagined in my head, it'll be OK. I just have to go for it, because that's just simply who we are now."</p>
<p class="title">Six-time Olympic gold medallist Allyson Felix gave birth to a baby girl via emergency C-section last month and despite the premature birth, both mother and child were "doing fine," US Track and Field said on Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Medical complications required the baby, named Camryn, to be born at 32 weeks and she will need additional time in the neonatal intensive care unit before she can come home.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I'm trying to be open to what God has in store for me and my family," Felix wrote in a message posted to the team's website.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I still feel nervous and vulnerable. But I also feel brave and excited. Every day I sit with my daughter in the NICU and watch her fight. Every day she gets stronger and more beautiful."</p>.<p class="bodytext">News of the birth came as a surprise to her fans since the Los Angeles native had not previously said she was pregnant.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The 33-year-old sprinter, the most decorated American woman in track and field history, was set to announce her pregnancy before the emergency C-section on Nov 28 derailed those plans.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Felix said she planned to compete at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 and would run with a new sense of purpose.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I'm not just running to win the most medals anymore," she said in a first-person article published by ESPN on Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"If I come back and I'm just not the same, if I can't make a fifth Olympic team, I'm gonna know that I fought, that I was determined, and that I gave it my absolute all.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"And if it doesn't end up the way I imagined in my head, it'll be OK. I just have to go for it, because that's just simply who we are now."</p>