Hahaha it’s not said with malicious intent - it’s a common and known fact of life to find some babies quite ugly
![Face with tears of joy :joy: 😂](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f602.png)
Until around the 6 month mark many babies aren’t very physically appealing but they can still be cute. I was a stereotypically ugly baby myself and so was another of my sisters, it’s a lighthearted running joke in the family when comparing baby pictures. On the flip side, our eldest sibling was a very stereotypically pretty baby. It’s just a thing, it doesn’t equate to a baby being any less than.