One of my girlfriends had her bub 3 weeks ago, first baby, and her DH was away at work. He works on the oil riggs off WA, and he chose to be away for the birth, for the money. She was not happy about it, but had her parents by her side the whole time. She felt she had an awful labour/birth experience because she was stressing so much that DH wasn't there with her. So try not to stress too much like the others have said.