My DH stayed at home to look after DS and the midwife picked me up on the way to the birth center. I was really upset that DH wasn't going to be there but in the end I didn't notice. Would have been nice for him to have the memory - afterwards I was o.k with it but he has regretted it ever since.

For me it was such an internal process that I wouldn't have cared if I had been entirely alone or if I had been on stage with a million onlookers. I just did my own thing and I think DH trying to find some way to help would have been distracting!