re: Need advice

He's your kid. As awkward as it is you have to maintain contact. I would go beyond the facetime or phone conversations. I'd write to him, draw lots of pictures like a comic book... keep that 100% regular, pick your schedule and never break it. I'd give him jokes and humor and stories of you and your ancestors. The thing is to offer your self as a father, consistently and without fail in whatever manner you can. Send him books, toys. She can be whoever she is and he may be in her clutches but You must be a father. He's in the world, he's your blood. Fatherhood, even in good circumstances, is a lot of putting one foot in front of the other because it's the right thing to do.