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birth certificates question

PotomacStPotomacSt member
in May 2012 Moms

Have any of you ordered copies of LO's birth certificate yet?

I ordered a certified copy of my DD's from the County's department of vital records and was totally surprised by how little is on it. All that's on it is her name, DOB, county she was born in, and mine and my husband's names, our ages, and the states we were born in.

She was born in a different state from both DH and I. We're from IL and TX and our birth certificates both have a ton of info on them - time of birth, hospital we were born in, doctor who attended, home address, weight and length, whether we were from a multiple birth, mother's and father's hometown, etc.

 Is having minimal information on a birth certificate just the norm now? Or is it just my state? I don't think I could have ordered the wrong thing, there was only one option for birth certificates. It just struck me as weird that it is so different than mine and DH's.

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  • Jess & DrewJess & Drew member
    We live in Florida and ours was very minimal info also. I was surprised like you because mine (FL) and DH's (CA) both had every piece of info you could ever need on them. Minimal info must be the norm now.
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  • AugustInSeptAugustInSept
    You're in STL, right? I live here too. My first son was the same, very minimal. I just ordered my second kiddos, but I'm sure its the same still.
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  • bellelambbellelamb member
    Are you talking the original birth certificate or a certified copy?? If you order a copy of yours it won't be the same as the original much plainer with little info.
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  • mkflower3000mkflower3000 member
    We ordered one when DD was 10 days old, but it hasn't come yet! I keep forgetting to call but I really need to... We also moved in the meanwhile, so I'm not sure if something happened to it (we do get our mail forwarded, so theoretically it should've come to us anyway), but it's gonna be a huge pain if I have to go back to the old state in order to receive it.
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  • PotomacStPotomacSt member

    imagebellelamb:
    Are you talking the original birth certificate or a certified copy?? If you order a copy of yours it won't be the same as the original much plainer with little info.

    It's a certified copy. But mine is also a certified copy (literally it's a xerox copy of the original piece of paper, with the county's embossed seal) so I guess that's what I expected. Apparently things have changed since the early 1980s, imagine that :)

    So is there an old-school style birth certificate recorded with the county, or is the minimalist certified version all they do any more? Do the 'long form' ones like mine exist anymore except as a medical record? My hospital only has electronic medical records and told us they do not distribute birth certificates (which makes sense)  and that was the only thing that the county gave me the option to order.

     

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  • PotomacStPotomacSt member

    imageAugustInSept:
    You're in STL, right? I live here too. My first son was the same, very minimal. I just ordered my second kiddos, but I'm sure its the same still.

    oh, I just saw your reply on the "where are you from" thread! So where'd you go to high school? ;) just kidding, I despise that question. I live near Wsh U and work in NoCo. Are you from here? When you say you're in NoCo for now, does that mean you're trying to move?

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  • AugustInSeptAugustInSept
    We want to move to O'Fallon next year. I used to live in West Co, but moved here with my husband.


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  • TnG05TnG05
    I ordered a copy and it has all the info you and your husband has.  
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  • fryratfryrat member
    They do the minimal info now because of HIPAA. So many people use their birth certificates for things where ID is needed, they don't put the medical info on it anymore. It will usually list where they were born, so if that info needs to be verified it can be. The amount of data varies from state to state, because it's not a requirement to change it by fed standards.
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