Choose whomever you think will be a good role model for your child.

We chose my sister and my husband’s brother.

My close friend is one to my kids , but now we hardly see her as she lives far , so life stages do change as we get older .

We thought about this for a while, then one day watched one of my closest friends with my son and saw he made him happy. He doesn’t have much (as in money, possessions etc), but he would enrich and love my son and set him on the right path for me. This is what was important to me. That’s what made my mind up. Good luck! It’s an important job and I hope the person you choose takes it seriously.

Very good question. Who ever u think u would like to raise ur child I case the unthinkable happens!

there is another post on this, check their ideas and comments too to help you make your decision.

I think its good to choose family or close life-long friends, someone you’re not likely to have a falling out with. I think most people chose a male and a female but I’d say its really up to you to chose whoever you would like.

I’d really go for someone I can trust and feel comfortable with. its a big responsibility

we choose our closet friends.

make sure they know this is an 18 year commitment maybe more

first 2 people we thought of that we wanted in our childs life

Choose people who you trust your baby’s life to should anything happen to you and your partner

We picked 2 God Parents, though I know some can have 3 or 4. We just picked friends who we trusted and had similar beliefs to us. As we don’t want religious conflicts to occur at any point. (We are not religious, but I have friends who had the god parents with 2 different beliefs who argued with the parents on religion so much that the friendship fell apart.)

We chose life long friends from Scotland and newish friends from Perth, this way our daughter will have godparents in both places. All 4 are very different.

I chose my closest lifelong friend as she knows me better than anyone and knows what kind of life iwould want my daughter to have if I were not here to guide her.

We used our maid of honor and best man from our wedding – out best friends.

We chose family and our closest friends, and went with equal female and male. You want to choose someone who will be in your child’s life.

It must be difficult decision but I feel family would be next of kin automatically and its just a token gesture so have a few make it fun

We choose family. Because in the end people come and go from your life but family always remains.

We chose family for my daughters godparents, my sister, sister in law and brother. So many people I know including myself don’t know all their godparents because they were good family friends at the time and now they no longer speak