I apologize in advance for the long post.

Last night my husband and I were discussing our daughters upcoming birth, I am currently 34 weeks. I asked him if he planned on taking to two weeks off to help me while I recover, to establish a bond with our little one and to overall enjoy the new adventure we are beginning together. His response to me was "I'll try". He works for a construction company as a laborer/machine operator; the company owner has told him that he can take as much time off as he needs, so his job is not in jeopardy. He says he wants to make sure we are fine financially which is a completely valid concern because unlike mine his leave will be unpaid. However, when we first found out we were expecting I tried to discuss with him putting aside money, so when we did go on leave we would have a small cushion. His response was "we can worry about that later" and in the months following he continued to spend money on frivolous items such as 100.00 dollar belt. He also adopted another dog (we already had 2 dogs) 2 weeks ago and this dog has already cost us a small fortune. So for him to say he will try to take off from work because wants to make sure we are ok financially doesn't make sense to me when we had months to prepare, but instead he chose to be financially irresponsible. I took it upon myself and opened a separate account at my job's credit union and put side money each payday. However, the money I was able to save away I've had to borrow from to help cover times when our shared account was short. I have a couple hundred saved. Am I being unreasonable asking him to take off?

Quick backstory: we have suffered 2 miscarriages. The first at 17 weeks in 2015 and one in February of this year. We conceived our daughter a month following our miscarriage in February. She is our little miracle baby which is why it means so much to me that he be at home with us following her birth. Plus I'm my mother's primary caregiver and she lives with us.