The only people I've heard of who've left hossy that early are people who want to & it's usually cos they already have kids at home and they are eager to get home to them.

I gave birth in a public hossy & had 3 nights in a two bed ward & 2 nights in a single bonding room as my bub was in special care. I had help with breastfeeding for every feed and I don't know anyone IRL who got that in a private hossy. The average stay for vaginal delivery for those who were at hossy when I was there was 2 days if no stitches were involved & 3 if you'd had them. I had one particular middy who would just sit on the end of my bed and chat to me for a while to get my mind off my worries of having a sick newborn.

I found the public system fantastic & would do it again if I were to give birth again. I've heard bad stories about how long you can wait to see middys and docs for appointments though but I avoided that by having my own OB for appointments only (although my reason for having an OB was to have one person watch me throughout pregnancy due to my age). The out of pocket cost were minimal (I think $17 per appointment) and no pregnancy management fee.

What you pay extra for by going private is a private room (apparently that's not even guaranteed in some private hossys) and the choice of who delivers your baby. Even so the doctor may not arrive in time to deliver your bub, or may send another OB if they are not available (busy delivering another bub or on holidays etc). If you aren't fussed about those things it's just not worth paying the extra money.

I'm sure you will not regret your decision to go public.