Hailee Steinfeld wants to "make the holidays a little extra special" after becoming a mother for the first time.

The Sinners actress and Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen welcomed baby girl Harper Haize Allen into the world in April this year, and she is excited for her first Thanksgiving and Christmas with their bundle of joy.

She told Extra: "The prep and the cooking and all that is, you know… fun until it's not. It's a lot of work.

"This is my first holiday with a baby, though, so we're excited to make the holidays a little extra special this year."

Hailee stars in Disney's new supernatural animated film Hexed, and while she didn't meet her castmates until the ongoing press tour started, they have still been a big help.

She said: "I'm getting a lot of love and support, which is very needed during this time, but it's the most incredible thing. I feel so, so very blessed."

Hailee, 29, previously expressed how lucky she and Josh are to be parents to the tot.

She wrote on her Beau Society Substack: "You've been here for only a short while now, and somehow it feels as though you've always been ours.

"There are moments (like right now, as you sleep so soundly on my chest), I still look at you and wonder how you're real.

"These last few months have been beautiful and exhausting. Sacred and so special. The longest days and the shortest season all at once."

Hailee noted that being a mom is bittersweet.

The Bumblebee cast member explained: "Everyone tells me not to blink. Now I understand why. Because already, I miss versions of you that still feel like yesterday:

"The way you'd make sure we'd have multiple visits throughout the night, the impossibly small diapers we swore looked enormous before you arrived.

"I want your baby hair to stay this soft forever, but I long for the day you might ask me to braid it down your back while we're sitting in the grass.

"I could tear up at the thought of your tiny toes getting bigger, but I know that someday your big-girl feet will carry you through this big world."

Hailee wants to enjoy all aspects of being a mom.

She concluded: "I've learned that motherhood isn't made up of grand moments as much as the tiny, precious ones.

"The quiet realisation, over and over again, that my heart is now somehow living outside of my body and it always will."