TellyTubby
Only you can make your final decision. It’s what you will on Labour day, feel comfortable with.

The best thing would be to get all your options out there and see what actually is available to you. From your health insurance what you are and aren't entitled to, to what both the public and private hospitals have as options. Speak to a possible ob that would be covering your care also. Also the aftercare the hospital provides. Again, each hospital is different.

Even going private in a public hospital does not guarantee a single room, it’s the pot luck of your timing being in hospital ie other background of girls in the post natal ward at the time.

The intervention factor is relative to the Ob's, doc on duty at the time and midwives at the time. Remembering that every birth is different. I know of people that were not intervened with during their labour, and their outcome was less than ideal for their situation.

Again I can also ramble about how I chose to go private, but they were for my reasons and my reasons only. I was low risk, figuring that I had never done this before, so there was a risk of something going wrong. Labour was traumatic, and to the credit of my Ob, he could have given me a c/s at the first opportunity (and when I demanded it hehehe after I had had enough), he stuck with me and I had a wonderful vaginal delivery.
Again, that was my ob's decision, and they all make their own decisions.

For our Number two, we are going private again. I didn’t even think twice about going public. I was happy with my experience, so have decided not to change it.

Good luck, do what you feel is right for you and your child. Ultimately you are the one giving birth and have to feel confident you are in the right place with the right people.