If you are going to freebirth why not homebirth with a good IM you can trust and get along with? If things go wrong they go wrong quickly and it can be good to have someone there who wont have the adrenaline flowing and with a level head and who knows what to do. Is it really fair to put that pressure on your partner? Mind you a true freebirth is birthing completely by yourself with no-one else there. By all means learn infant resuscitation, but the resuscitation techniques on a newborn are slightly different (as in different breathing rates and heart rates) but any resuscitation is better then none. Just factor in how long it would take for an ambulance to reach you if something went wrong, sometimes you only have 2 -3 minutes.