Partner who sleeps through EVERYTHING

I'm planning a C-section. I'm not too worried about recovery as I've had 1 major and 6 minor surgeries before, I feel like I understand the severity of recovery, but my only real worry is looking after a baby while recovering. My partner is SUCH a heavy sleeper (and snorer!), and I am worried he won't wake up to help me the first few days when I'll need it most.
I was planning on putting a small single bed in the nursery so whichever one of us is on "shift" that night can get up with the baby but I know that's going to end up being me every night.
If I put the baby in our bedroom , I'm worried the snoring will wake it up, and my husband will still sleep through all the crying or me asking for help.
I'm a very light sleeper, I have slept with ear plugs in pretty much our entire relationship because of his snoring, sometimes I sleep in the spare room and I have to get up and wake him up because his alarm for work is going off and he's snoring/sleeping through it.

I've always wanted a c section for personal reasons but his sleeping/snoring is the only reason I'm considering a vaginal birth now. But if it ends up being an emergency c section I'll be EVEN more tired.

My mum is unable to stay with us as she's disabled, and his mum can only come and stay with us for about a week because she's his dad's carer and doesn't want to leave him too long (they live abroad). I would rather she comes and stays once my partner goes back to work so I'm not alone straight away.

I've spoken to him about this and he insists he will get up when the baby cries but he doesn't even wake up when the house or fire alarms have gone off so I don't believe this.

I don't really know what I'm looking for as advice, but maybe just if someone has been in a similar situation with a heavy sleeping partner, how did they cope? Or was it a nightmare?

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Some of the baby monitoring systems have other (non sound) features, such as light and vibration etc, are these an option? My partner is partially deaf, so we need a system that has contingencies too. I'm still a little concerned about it myself honestly.

Hopefully the snoring itself is something that baby will sleep through, they adjust to background noise. But you can also soften it with some white noise too.

Sorry, I know it's not much and I expect I'll be in a similar situation as well. 😕

Hey so I’m in a similar situation! My partner is a really loud snorer and a heavy sleeper as he’s a little deaf due to getting meningitis as a baby. I’ve also had 2 csections, my last 5 weeks ago. The snoring alarmingly doesn’t bother the baby. Not sure if it’s because they’re used to it from the womb (his is so loud the baby definitely could hear it from in there 😂) but we do also use white noise. We put the next to me on his side of the bed and when the baby cries 80% of the time he’s up straight away, the times he’s not a good whack on the shoulder gets him up and he hands the baby to me. The system has worked well and I need the help with my recovery. You’re biologically designed to hear the baby immediately, so don’t worry about you hearing them, which is why we decided to put the next to me on his side.

My husband's dead to the world when he's asleep lol
When we had our baby our plan was crib on my side of the bed but after my C-section I wasn't able to sit up fast enough to take care of her so my husband ended up sleeping next to the crib. He surprisingly woke up every time he heard her 🤷🏽‍♀️ so you never know! 😅

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