We have all seen the cover of People magazine with Nicole Richie holding her beautiful new baby, Harlow Madden. In the issue Nicole and Joel Madden, discusses what it was like seeing Harlow for the first time, how Nicole and Joel chose their baby’s name, how life has changed since having a baby, what parenthood is like, and how Nicole has developed maternal instincts.

How Nicole felt when she first laid eyes on her baby:

“I cried right away,” Richie says of seeing Harlow for the first time. “I was holding her, and it was something that was so much bigger than me. Now she looks a little more like Joel, but when she was born, it looked like Joel had nothing to do with it.”

How Nicole and Joel chose the name Harlow:

“I wanted a hippie name and he wanted a more Biblical name,” Richie says – the uniqueness of Harlow stuck. “Harlow’s a cool name because it feels like a classic name,” Madden says, citing the actress Jean Harlow and model Shalom Harlow as two major inspirations.

How life has changed since having a baby:
“I don’t even remember what life was like before her,” new mom Nicole Richie, 26, says of daughter Harlow Winter Kate, born January 11. “She gives life a whole new meaning and a whole new purpose.”

“She’s never out of my mind,” says Richie. “I stop doing things for me anymore. Everything is for her.”"I was watching her in her crib,” says Richie. “And she happened to wake up and I was like, ‘Good morning!” And she smiled and it was the cutest thing ever.”

What parenthood is like:

It’s “the best thing that’s ever happened to us,” Joel Madden tells PEOPLE that Harlow has changed his and Nicole Richie’s life: “We have a very mellow life compared to two years ago, but we wouldn’t have it any other way.”

How Nicole has developed maternal instincts:

Attuned to her daughter’s needs, Richie says she knows how to pacify her when she’s in need. “I’m with her all the time … I know when somethings wrong,” she explains. And to soothe Harlow, Richie and Joel Madden, 28, play her lullaby versions of Radiohead and Nirvana songs.

Here are some more adorable pictures of the new family from the photoshoot:

Nicole Richie is on the new issue of People magazine with her new baby girl, Harlow Winter. I think that Harlow is so beautiful. Good work Nicole and Joel!

Here are some hightlights of the interview that People had with new mother, Nicole Richie, which hits newsstands on Friday:

On how the last six weeks have changed her, “It’s almost like I don’t even remember what life was like before her. She gives life a whole new meaning and a whole new purpose.”

As for breastfeeding, “There’s just so much I can’t eat because she’s sensitive,” says the new mom, 26. “I eat really bland [food] ? chicken noodle soup, vegetables, fish. I had to cut out milk, no tomatoes, no lettuce. You think you have to cut everything out when you’re pregnant, but you really have to cut everything out when you’re breastfeeding.”

And while Richie says, “I don’t know” how long she was in labor, “because I don’t know what time I actually went into labor, but I pushed for 10 minutes,” Joel Madden, 28, said of his daughter: “She came out and she was crying. The doctor goes, ‘Well, it looks like you got a little girl!’ ”

It’s the battle of the new mommy first baby pictures. And Nicole Richie seemed to have won. Christina Aguilera couldn’t sell her first pixs of Max for a pretty penny to OK! magazine, but Nicole Richie sold her pixs of Harlow to either People or US magazine for a wopping $1 million.

If you think that’s a lot of money, here is the list of the top selling celeb first baby pixs from Forbes.com:

4) Sean Preston Federline: $500,000 (People)

3) Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt: $2 million (People)

2) Larry Birkhead with Dannielynn: $2 million (OK! Magazine)

1) Shiloh Jolie-Pitt: $4.1 million (People)