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Q: Birth Certificate Question
asked by: AyaMiyaki on January 26th, 2007
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Mommies: how long after the birth did you receive your baby's birth certificate?

.Alyvia is 5 1/2 months old and I still haven't received hers. It didn't occur to me until today, when my stepmom called asking for a copy. So I had to call the hospital's records department and leave my name and number. I'm waiting on a call back now. How incredibly' annoying.
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Eyes Wide Shut replied on January 26th, 2007
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I think it's .Louisiana.

Oni's 9 months and I haven't gotten hers either....

I think .Katrina and .Rita have a lot to do with it.Rolling Eyes

sarah
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Sandbox Party replied on January 26th, 2007
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Shlllllllt.. Here in florida, you dont automatically get one.

You have to wait til the baby is a month old and go pay for one.

$12.00!
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AyaMiyaki replied on January 26th, 2007
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babymajic0506 wrote:
i think it's .Louisiana.

Oni's 9 months and I haven't gotten hers either....


I think .Katrina and .Rita have a lot to do with it.Rolling Eyes

sarah


isn't that so weird?? God, those dumb hurricanes jacked everything up. I heard on the news the other day that .Katrina and .Rita will be affecting us for decades. *sigh*

9 months, wow Shocked
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lil_blaze2004 replied on January 26th, 2007
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Here too, it's up to you to go and get one for your kid. They're 15$ or 35$ if you want it within 2 days.
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Eyes Wide Shut replied on January 26th, 2007
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.Katrina especially down here.

.New .Orleans will never be the same.

They're talkin about demolishing the entire .New .Orleans .East.

Sarah
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Bridget replied on January 26th, 2007
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It's different everywhere.

When I was still in the hospital a woman came in and took all our info then came back the next day and gave us a completed form. The day after we got home nick took it to the town hall and I think it was like $10 and he got it right then and there.
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AyaMiyaki replied on January 26th, 2007
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iheartmybostonterrier wrote:
when I was still in the hospital a woman came in and took all our info then came back the next day and gave us a completed form.


you know, that sounds familiar? A lady did come in and have me fill out some stuff. She brought it back all typed up and I corrected a few things, and she came back again with an official-looking document. But I was pretty sure she said the hospital files for all of that. I know for sure they said they send off for the social security card (i remember asking about that) and I was pretty sure she said the same about the birth certificate. But... Hmm, I might go digging through our documents from the hospital. Thank .God I kept everything. I'll be soooo irritated if .I've had the stuff to go get the certificate all this time. Evil or Very Mad
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Eyes Wide Shut replied on January 26th, 2007
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They told me mine would come in the mail soon after her solcial security card.

Hell, I don't know. I can always go get her one, I guess.

Sarah
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AyaMiyaki replied on January 26th, 2007
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babymajic0506 wrote:
they told me mine would come in the mail soon after her solcial security card.


Hell, I don't know. I can always go get her one, I guess.

Sarah


.I was sure that's what they told me too. Her social security card came just a couple of weeks after she was born. I remember getting so excited and telling .Aaron "look! Look! The baby has mail!" and I did the same thing when her .Medicaid card came in. I loved seeing her name printed on envelopes, like it made her a "real" person instead of a moving critter in my belly.

But nope, no birth certificate yet! Evil or Very Mad
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AyaMiyaki replied on January 26th, 2007
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*scoff*

so I got a call back from the records office. She said if I received .Alyvia's ss card, then everything is fine. All paperwork goes through .New .Orleans, which of course has been effed up by .Katrina, so the certificates are being mailed anywhere from 6-9 months after the birth.

*sigh* dumb hurricanes
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laura_friesen replied on January 26th, 2007
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I live in bc canada, and it took 3 weeks :p but costed 20 bux. But whatever
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OctoberBaby06 replied on January 26th, 2007
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Wow, we got lucky then ... Kaylee got hers when she was 2 months old Shocked

.Michelle
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Magical Logic replied on January 26th, 2007
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Here you have to go to the health department and pay 10 dollars but we are waiting for them to fix one of them they had her as a he and born 6 days earlier than the other one.
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lil_blaze2004 replied on January 26th, 2007
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chase4 wrote:
here you have to go to the health department and pay 10 dollars but we are waiting for them to fix one of them they had her as a he and born 6 days earlier than the other one.


lmao wow they really screwed that one up eh?

"miracle woman gives birth to twins 6 days apart!!!" Shocked lol
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Magical Logic replied on January 26th, 2007
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Lol that what I told the lady. I said damn I should have been on the news
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Melissa_20 replied on January 26th, 2007
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I thought my sister got daltons birth certificate right after he was born. . .Maybe i'm wrong. . .
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oh_mommy replied on January 26th, 2007
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Here u pay 27$ and it takes 3-6 weeks but for some reason the post office sent reeses back to the place, so it took 2 months
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tinkinpink84 replied on January 26th, 2007
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rainfire1424 wrote:
shlllllllt.. Here in florida, you dont automatically get one.


You have to wait til the baby is a month old and go pay for one.

$12.00!


yeah well when I had joseph I didnt get one till he was about 5 mths old but I didnt bother paying for the one I applied for at the hospital. Because me and hubby were planning on getting married so I waited till we got married because I had to change the name on the birth certificate. My parents were a little mad at him before and wouldnt let him put his name on the birth certificate but now hes there fave son in law lol/
12 aint nothing lmao we have to pay $65!!!!!!!!! For jordynnes here. Well we got the german one that cost 5 euro but for the american one its $65 and we gotta fill otu all this paperwork and get her a passport wich is free its a government passport but still expensive
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Sandbox Party replied on January 26th, 2007
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Jesus christ! $65!?? Fuggg dat!
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