You won't like my answer. You have no legal rights to the infant, anymor ethan any other person.
What the mother can do, is leave her preferences in a will. The courts are not obligated to follow her wishes. Unless there is a stepfather in the future that is willing to adopt the child legally, the courts will not terminate a natural father's rights, unless there are extreme circumstances.
Since the child is unborn at this time, in most ststes , the mother must wait until birth to bring an action for custody and child support. She cannot waive child support. The father has a right to visitation, unless he is a danger to the child, proved in a court of law, and then he still may get supervised visits. The mother needs to retain a skilled family law attorney to head things off at the pass; have the petitions ready to go upon birth. There may be a legal stragedy the mother can use to keep you in the legal picture though. She would have to confer with an attorney. It is possible to inlcude third party visitation, by court order, visitation for you. What this would do is 1) establish for you, some legal standing 2) promote a relationship with the child that woudl later be important to the "best interest of the child" in future proceedings ( maintaining a relationship would be important) 3) possibly perserve your visitation if anything did happen to the mother, and the father gets custody.
As I said, she would have to discuss this with her lawyer. She might want to consider, creating a a durable power of attorney from her to you, to be used ONLY if she is aunable to make decisions, so there will be an "instant" guardianship for the child. Of course the father, if his rights are intact, will be able to overscome this in court, but it will give you standing to even be in court on behalf of th child. Otherwise, you are not a legal party to the case.



