Childcare help!

I need to work out childcare before I start my maternity leave. Long post in coming and I need ideas!

I am only entitled to SMP not Matleave because by the time I leave I wouldn't have worked enough weeks to be eligible for it.

So ideally I'll be going back to work after a year but 3 of those months will be unpaid.

So I work night shifts, 4 days one week 3 days the next. But of those 2 weeks only 4 of them are weekdays, so I only need to sort out childcare for those days. I get home at 8:15am, but my partner will leave for work between 6:30-7:30am for his job. He is SELF EMPLOYED. I've found a nursery up the road from us that opens at 7:30am, so the plan would be that my partner takes our little one to nursery on his way to work and then I'll come home, sleep, and then go pick her up later on in the day around 2pm.

But he won't do it.

He used to work for this company on an employed contract but he left for a while and came back self employed, therefore he doesn't actually have contracted hours and can be a little flexible. I've explained to him that it's only 4 days over 2 weeks he would need to leave later to take our little one to nursery but he keeps making excuses saying that his boss wouldn't be happy about it and blah blah blah.

I've already considered a child minder or baby sitter, but the costs are too high and/or they aren't local to where I live (I live in a rural area) and any one who is close by has terrible reviews or aren't Ofsted approved etc...

So the only alternative to him leaving later to drop our girl off at nursery is for me to leave my job because my job is not flexible, I work in a care home and can't just up and leave at 6am when staff don't come in until 7:30am.

He can afford to provide for us all on his income, but I like earning my own money and I actually pay all the bills so I am quite literally half of the 'bread winner' in this home.

I'm angry at my fiance for not wanting to do this, he feels bad but swears his boss would kick off at him, and tbh his boss is actually a massive dick and has kicked off about similar things in the past, but if he's self employed he can be flexible and if it's for a child I feel like it should be allowed? He says he will ask and sort something out but I know my partner and he will either not ask and lie to me about it or forget and do it last minute and then stress himself out if his boss kicks off.

I'm at my wit's end. I need alternative ideas.

Family isn't an option because everyone works and don't live close by. HELP