with all mine i started off in jogging bottoms and a vest top as i was induced, once things got going i stripped of, with ds1 they tried to make me wear a hospital gown, whne i was kneeling up and pushing it kept falling down and was HUGELY irritating i kept trying to take it off and the midwife kept trying to put it back on, ihave NO idea why she did that it pissed me right off!
ds2 i laboured in a bath and was naked, but at transition i HAD to get out of the bath, i was totally high on gas and air and marched down the corridor from the bathroom back to my delivery room naked dragging the gas and air canister with me!! wondeful sight that was i am sure, hte midwife tried to put a towel over me but i think that was more to save the blushes of the other husbans that were around, i quite frankly didnt give a fuck,
ds3 again naked.
ds4 in the pool so naked.
dd i think i may have had a vest top on, purely becasue i ended up with the sytocin drip and i had it on when they put the drip in and couldnt get it off? tho actually i think i remember the midwife unhooking the drip for a moment so i could take it off?
i couldnt not bear anything or anyone touching me when i was in labour i HAD to be naked. i dont see anything undignified about that at all and like mathanxiety i felt on top of the world after igave birth, the best feeling ever each time. kind of sad i wont do it again tbh, but ihave 5, so am done now!
if you OP want to wear clothes fine, but dont equate clothing in labour wiht dignity and try and tell others they are being undignified. and i have no idea if my friends were naked or not, its not something we have discussed. i was a birth partner for a friend 10yrs ago and she was naked, didnt bother me, she was also there when i had my ds3 and i was naked nad she wasnt bothered either. but then we are close friends and have shared toilet cubicles, help back each others hair when vomiting and basically shared everything and it doesnt make us any less 'dignified' to each other!