Pregnant women's vaccinated partners not allowed to stay with them in hospitals.

The second link is about Switzerland but ok.

Here is a piece specifically about Ireland. It's very helpful for women in labour, not only to have the support but to have someone to advocate for them

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/forcing-women-to-give-birth-within-a-specified-timeframe-is-abuse-1.3282848

Sure, write off all 10,000 midwives in Ireland because of a couple of bad experiences. That's totally reasonable.

What is the status at the moment are husbands/partners allowed in during hospital visiting hours?

yes, and many people died in the famine too. whilst both statements are obnoxiously obvious, neither are favourable. as ignorant as your first statement is, your concluding paragraph is also just terrible. PS. i dont agree that the staffing levels are too low. my experiences x2 have been that there are ample midwives, however, they are too busy sitting around eating biscuits to help, and have the graduates support. for one of my visits, 2 mws were seated infront of the telly watching the galway v clare hurling game 3 years ago, which went to extra time.

Worthy of quoting your reasoned reply to a completely ignorant post. There are a few others of similar opinions. Comments about people "wandering" about are also crass and ignorant.

The general HSE/Department of Health/NPHET handling of the Covid issue is an unending sequence of illogical incompetence. These are maternity hospitals, outcome scenario intended to be a bit different to standard hospital.

"They" set them up so they really need to have adapted to the new circumstances by now and be able to welcome both parents or mother and "friend" as applies. There are ways and means of arranging for people to accompany prospective mothers safely, and if "medical professionals" haven't figured it out you wonder at their capacity for actually being able to carry out their job properly.

There is no reason for this rubbish and it really is typical of the whole health industry incompetence.

It’s very clear some of the posters on this thread have neither given birth in Ireland or have heard birth stories from Irish hospitals.

A common theme is that they don’t even tell you that you are getting an episiotomy, or other interventions. The decision is made for you. Now you may argue that it’s best for the baby, but you should at least be given the dignity of been told what the medical team are doing.

A woman needs to recover after giving birth. Many women will of had c-sections, a tear or an episiotomy so they have wounds that required stitches. They are sore and in some cases weak from blood loss and of course exhausted. Many will need help to get out of bed to go to the loo no mind trying to pick up their newborn baby. Do people in this thread really think midwives are running around helping new mothers care for their babies. Because that in all honesty is not the experience that any mother I know has experienced.

We all know Ireland has a good record when it comes to maternal mortality, however I think there is room for improvement when it comes to the amount of women with birth injuries.

I personally hope when I give birth in a couple months that my partner can be there for the whole labour and allowed in for more then a couple minutes afterwards. We have paid for private scans for this pregnancy before the hospital scans so that I wouldn’t be in a position of receiving bad news on my own and having to tell him. Thankfully things are looking good so far with our baby. We are lucky that we could afford to pay for those scans. Not every couple can.