Pregnancy and childbirth are important moments in the lives of many women, and the experience of childbirth can profoundly affect the health of postpartum women. Their age and the health insurance plan used can be factors that can affect the reporting of this experience.

To evaluate the childbirth experience according to maternal age and health insurance plan.

This is a cross-sectional study that was conducted with women up to four weeks after vaginal delivery, to apply a Childbirth Experience Questionnaire. The participants were divided into two groups for evaluation: health insurance plan and maternal age. The first group was subdivided according to the health insurance plan, with group G1 using the Unified Health System (n = 27) and group G2 using the Private Network system (n = 21); group G3 composed of women aged between 18 and 30 years (n = 23); and group G4 aged between 31 and 40 years (n = 25). All participants signed the Free and Informed Consent Form. The Student&apos;s t-test was used for independent samples and the significance level was set at p < 0.05.

The score obtained in the group that delivered in the Private Health System was 2.72, while the group that delivered in the Public Health System (SUS) was 2.44 (p = 0.026). Regarding the maternal age scores, the group aged between 18 and 30 years had an average of 2.65, while the groups aged between 31 and 40 years had a score of 2.52 (p = 0.36).

A better childbirth experience was evidenced in the group with medical care in the Private Health System compared to the Unified Health System, and there was no difference between the groups regarding maternal age.

Based on the results obtained, which demonstrate that women who gave birth with medical assistance in a private network had a better birth experience and associated with all the socio-emotional burden that affects both the woman, the child and the family, it is extremely important to apply the recently validated and updated questionnaire that shows where the limitations are and what needs to be improved at the time of birth between the networks. This study becomes necessary to help health professionals, including physiotherapists (who are increasingly gaining space in maternity centers) to apply the questionnaire and correct what is generating a negative experience during childbirth.