Lay off/maternity vent

So my job is essential and still going strong, and my job isn’t going anywhere. But I am, I’m 34 weeks pregnant, my last day was in 3.5 weeks anyway. So my boss brought me in and we had a discussion about how I’d feel being laid off because he needs to let some people go, he said in a normal world if you weren’t leaving to have a baby, you’d stay and just take on more duties and we’d let the other girl go.

He said obviously when this corona shit is over, we have to have someone in your job so we’d want you to come back but this way I don’t have to lay someone else off and they can just take over your duties.

I discussed it with my husband and we agreed, it would be smart because I wasnt going to get paid for maternity leave because I haven’t been here a year yet. So this way, I’m off, and getting paid. And honestly I have the same chance now as I did before of getting my job back, as long as this virus stuff ends.

Well now that I actually told my boss yes, my husband is pissed. Telling me it’s a stupid choice, I am just trying to be off work extra and be lazy, and I shouldn’t have agreed to it because I’m just thinking short term of how to make money now, not what I’ll do in 3 months or so when I need to go back to work.

I’m shocked. Like we discussed this... and now I’m horrible?! I didn’t have maternity leave so I was going to be off work, without pay, with no real promise of getting my job back. This way, I’m off work, with pay and still the same amount of promise of getting my job back.

To me this is just the state of the world right now, so much uncertainty id rather get unemployment and make sure we have money coming in the next few months because we don’t know what it looks like..

Thoughts??