My wife gave birth at Al Ahli under Dr. Rizvi's care with our first child last January 2011.

Facilities are great, nurses & house keeping are friendly. All of our needs are taken cared off: from extra pillows to extra napkins, from every now and then asking the nurses for simple matters to even asking them to bring in the doctor for extra hard questions.

My friends' wife gave birth at Hamad though and they too have a positive feedback on how they were taken cared off.

One advantage of Al Ahli is that your visitors can come & go anytime they pleases and there's no limit to how many of them. Your husband can even accompany you to the delivery room if you'l be giving birth via normal procedure.

But sadly, yeah Al Ahli is expensive if you do not have any insurance.