Boyfriend not supportive of home birth

Katrine

Hi guys. I’m 17 weeks pregnant, and have started thinking about the giving birth part. I really feel sucky getting into hospitals, like my heart rate literally increases and I get sweaty palms. It’s not anxiety like but more just uncomfortable and not feeling right. This makes me really want to give birth at home where I’m in my usual surroundings and think I will feel much more in control and have ownership of the process. However my boyfriend is really having a hard time accepting this - not because he’s worried about things going wrong, but because he thinks getting our two bedroom apartment ‘birthing ready’ will be a huge task, and he doesn’t feel like doing cleanup afterwards. I’m so torn between wanting to respect his feelings and feeling like it’s utter bullshit that I should give birth in a hospital, when his best argument is laziness.

Midwife and doctors keep saying we shouldn’t go for a home birth if both of us aren’t into it - but should we really go for the hospital option when the thought literally made me ugly cry for an hour yesterday??

Do you have any thoughts on this? Has anyone been in a similar situation? Any advice? Anything?