Her first stage appearance was with the Oxford University Dramatic Society in February 1894, when she played Iris in The Tempest.

[2] In her retirement Baird put her attention towards family at a London's health centre known as the St. Pancras School for Mothers,[3] of which she was a board member for many years.

[2] In 1908 the second report showed that Baird was involved in organising a tea party, along with entertainment, for 78 mothers and their babies.

[2] The purpose of the school was to provide mothers with advice and information along with home visits and babies health care.

[2] According to a report on Bairds time on the committee, she used these slides to show the effects bad housing conditions on infants.

[4] With the help of Percy Nash, Baird created Motherhood to try to help improve the living habits of mothers and infants.

[4] The film itself draws from the St. Pancras Poor Law Guardians program in which it shows a newly married Mary (Lettie Paxton), cleaning her house and breathing in laundry fumes.