Aside from new babies, new mothers must be the most beautiful creatures on earth.

The quote elevates postpartum motherhood by placing “new mothers” just behind “new babies” in a hierarchy of beauty. “Aside from” concedes the near-universal admiration for infants, then redirects attention to the mother—often overlooked once the baby arrives. The “most beautiful creatures” phrasing is deliberately expansive: beauty is not limited to physical attractiveness but includes tenderness, resilience, and the visible transformation of becoming responsible for another life. As a compliment, it also functions as reassurance, implicitly challenging harsh judgments about how a woman ‘should’ look or feel immediately after birth.