"She has his eyes and his chin.
"I have got a memory book made for her with photos and things. He is going to be a big part of her life."
Cherize said she planned to keep Hugh's memory alive by telling her about his exploits on the rugby field for Trident High School.
She said: "She has all his friends pretty heavily involved with her, so they can tell her their own stories about him."
Hugh had tickets to go to all of the All Blacks matches at Eden Park with his foster father Rob Shaw.
Shaw tried in vain to hack his way into the bedroom at the back of his house where Hugh had been buried in 4m of mud and debris.
Shaw, the principal at Taneatua School, said it had been emotional making the trip up for the All Blacks games without Hugh: "It has been tough."
Cherize named her daughter Zekaiya Lamour Shaw Biddle, as a tribute to the principal.
She said she has watched some of the New Zealand games with the newborn.
"We dress her up in little All Blacks outfits."
Cherize, who turns 17 next April, said she had coped well with the demands of motherhood. She lives with her mother and three siblings in Whakatane, and said she wanted to return to school next year.
She hasn't been able to bring herself to return to the house where Hugh died, which is still uninhabitable.
Mechanical diggers were called to clear the debris after tonnes of earth and vegetation slid down a 100m bank on to the house on June 18.
Biddle had just started a welding apprenticeship in Opotiki when the landslide occurred.
