Birkhead Won't Share Dannielynn

Larry Birkhead is ready and willing, if not yet able, to begin his tour of daddy duty.

A day after being declared the biological father of seven-month-old Dannielynn, Birkhead took to the airwaves to share his joy and prove his single-parenting mettle.

While the 34-year-old photographer had a major victory in the courts of both the Bahamas and public opinion Tuesday, he has yet to be awarded custody of his child with Anna Nicole Smith, something he says he is willing, yet again, to fight for and something which he will not share.

"We might go from one fight to another, but I'm hoping that's not the case because, you know, there's only one dad, and I have no problem with anyone that has good intentions being allowed to visit the baby and see the baby and be a part of the baby's life," he told the Today show Wednesday.

Birkhead added it was great to no longer be known as "the man who claimed he's the father of Dannielynn. I'm actually the father."

That honor seems to have passed to another candidate, who has surprisingly come out strong in support of his former rival: Howard K. Stern.

Stern has already made himself a vocal member of Team Birkhead, giving his legal adversary of the past year a hug outside the courtroom yesterday and telling reporters he will "do everything I can to make sure he gets sole custody."

However, Birkhead is denying that this newfound support is the result of some sort of arrangement rumored to have brokered between the twosome, telling Access Hollywood "there's no deal."

"For a deal, you have to offer someone something in exchange," Birkhead said. "There's been no 'If you do this, then I will give you the baby,' or anything like that. Paternity was established and there's really nothing to negotiate."

Legal custody of the child has yet to be resolved, however, though a judge will likely determine the matter at a hearing Friday.

Birkhead told Today he did not want to share custody with another party, be it Stern or Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, as "it would imply that I'm unfit as a parent, which I'm not."

What he is doing is taking his legal battles one victory at a time, taking time out Wednesday to enjoy the spoils of his vindication.

"[It was] a long fight," he told Today, adding that, when proclaiming "I told you so!" to the throngs of reporters and tourists outside the Bahamian courtroom Tuesday, he was feeling "just a sense of relief that this was on its way to being over."

"We don't know what's ahead, but just to be named the father...to have that heavy weight off your shoulders was just incredible, it was just a magical moment."

While Arthur filed paperwork in the Bahamas last week, prior to the DNA reveal, to attempt to obtain custody of Dannielynn, Birkhead is nonetheless hedging his guardianship bets.

"She's got lots of toys and a nursery ready for her, and she's got everything that she's gonna need," he said on the morning show. "All I have to do is just give her the love, and that's just what I'm ready and prepared to do."

As for any potential bid by Arthur to wrangle custody of Dannielynn away from Birkhead, he told Access Hollywood that joint guardianship, well-intended or not, is out of the question. As would be a reconciliation should such a legal battle take place.

"This is my child and I'm going to raise it," he said. "For someone to fight me and them come back after they lose and say they want to see the baby, that's going to be difficult for me. So, if you fight me now, you might have to fight me later."

As it is, Birkhead today is too busy being a lover to be a fighter.

According to several media reports, Birkhead took Stern up on his offer to "spend as much time with [Dannielynn] as he wants to right now," logging several quality father-daughter hours at Horizons, Stern's Bahamian home, Tuesday night.

Like Birkhead, Stern appears to be operating under the assumption that the Kentucky-born photographer will be granted custody, telling reporters that transitioning the daughter between the men will likely take between two and four weeks.

While Birkhead has so far not made, or at least announced, a decision as to where he would like to raise Dannielynn, he has set up his boast-worthy nursery in his Burbank townhouse. However, according to People, he is also weighing a move to the far less media-centric Kentucky.