Home birth option

Every time I've been to the midwife (CF) I've said that I want a home birth and she doesn't seem to have been too enthusiastic about it - almost brushing my comments to one side and telling me we'll talk about it later, without writing anything in my notes. This Tuesday I again broached the subject and finally got a reaction, and a documentation in my notes. But it wasn't exactly a response that filled me with confidence - "I will support your decision, but it is hard and it's your first pregnancy and..." - and it left me feeling a bit worried that I would have to fight for what I want, and I definitely don't want that.

But I've just had a long chat with the midwife in charge of home births in the city (WD) (my yoga teacher gave me her number) and am feeling a whole load better about it. She reassured me that I wouldn't have to fight, that home births are being encouraged and that first-pregnancy is certainly not a reason not to go for it. WD works in the south of the city, but there's a new midwife starting in the new year who'll be her counterpart for the north - if I'm still having problems she'll put me in touch with her if I want to. She also said that it might be that CF is just not used to encouraging home births, as it's a relatively new thing on the "agenda" - WD offered to come and discuss everything (birth plan etc) with me and CF if we wanted her to and if it would help us both to feel happier about it.
I know that things may happen and I may have to transfer to hospital, but I only want to do that if I have to for medical reasons, not just because. I want everything to be as natural as possible, in an environment that I know and that I'm comfortable in, and for me, a home birth offers that.