Question #5

Question #5  What do we know about the birthfather and what are his rights?


Before I answer this question, I just wanted to give you guys an update.  Things are still looking good!  :)  Everything is still a go.

If you notice, there are two "tickers" on the left side of my blog.  The top one is for N's due date, March 23.  The bottom one, the one with the baby floating, is for his c-section date.  As you can notice, the days are going by pretty quickly.  It's hard to believe that we have less than 40 days before we get to see him for the first time.

Okay, now for the answer to the question:
While birthmothers have to wait for 48 hours after the birth before they can sign the papers to terminate their rights, in the state of Florida, birthfathers can sign over the parental rights before the baby is born.

For us, we don't have to get a birthfather to sign over rights.  N's birthfather was Jamaican and died of a cardiac arrest in November.  Even though the exact reason for his death is not known, they believe it had to do with a complication from a surgery that he had had a few weeks prior.

While this is sad, because N will never be able to meet his birthfather later on in life, it helps us.  We do not have to worry about two people having to sign over rights.

Tomorrow's Question:  Are we going to decorate a nursery and if so, what colors are we using?