Should your donor or co-parent attend the birth?

Should your donor or co-parent attend the birth?

If you have chosen a known donor or someone to co-parent with then you may have to have a discussion as to whether you want this person present at the birth. This will be determined by the type of agreement you have and hopefully you can discuss this type of detail as early as possible.

If the donor wants to attend the choice will ultimately be down to the birth mother and your partner, if you have one, as to whether you want him to be present so talk about this type of issue even before you try to conceive just to make sure you are all singing from the same hymn sheet.

Most sperm donors will leave mum or mum and partner alone to get on with experiencing the birth of your child however if you have a co-parenting agreement this may be something that is important to the father and can be written in to a contract.

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