This chapter explores the observations, perceptions and beliefs of health professionals and doulas who work closely with thousands of mothers and babies from pregnancy through to the postnatal period. Midwives and health visitors are in an ideal position to comment about birth, bonding and baby behaviour as they oversee women from all walks of life and observe the process of childbirth, as well as how mother and baby feel, behave and develop postnatally. In this study, 18 maternity care providers across the South-West regions of the UK were interviewed to begin to uncover whether and, if so, how and why childbirth experience might affect early baby behaviour. Nearly every participant felt there was a strong connection between the mother’s birth experience and baby behaviour through both direct pathways (e.g. pain and stress during childbirth) and indirect pathways—for example, the mother’s postnatal emotional wellbeing impacting the way she interacts with the baby. Creating calm, supportive birth environments was considered essential for all births, regardless of the circumstances or mode of birth. Midwives felt they needed more time to nurture mothers alongside their standard provision of physical care. How the mother perceives her birth experience was said to play a key role in how she feels, behaves towards and bonds with her baby. Babies are sensitive creatures and tend to reflect their mother’s postnatal mood. Additionally, midwives, health visitors and doulas all believed that providing the appropriate support, creating a positive postnatal environment and facilitating skin-to-skin care and breastfeeding post-birth could help to mitigate the impacts of a negative birth experience by promoting parent-baby bonding and overall mother-and-baby physiological and psychological wellbeing.