To be honest I don't remember the details. The key differentiators that I remember were: * longer stay in the private hospital * private rooms * better rati

To be honest I don't remember the details. The key differentiators that I remember were: * longer stay in the private hospital * private rooms * better ratio of staff to patients * easier access to useful services (physio, breast feeding consultants, etc.) * specialist assistance like breastfeeding courses and the like, if needed As it happens our first child was born by emergency C-section after a nasty fall and partial placenta abrupta, so we really tested them :) Everything went very well. I was suprised by the second birth, because that was a 'normal' C-section. People were laughing, chatting etc. and it was a much less "game face ON" environment than the first. I'd probably have noticed the tension more if I'd been paying more attention to anything other than my wife at the time.