Good Times at the Town Clerk's Office

[Coco_Hikes]

So at the request of my midwife I went to my town clerk's office to try to get a birth certificate form since we have to file one ourselves for a hb. I had a feeling this was going to be a fun experience. The person working there gave me the three-heads look when I explained what I needed, and of course said the word homebirth , and then kept telling me that in all her time there (a year and a half, she told me a few times) no one had ever needed such an thing. (I know this is not true as a friend in town just hb'd in January.) I left my contact info and she said she'd call around and figure out what the procedure was. Then as we were wrapping up she asked me who I was getting the paperwork for--a family member? A friend? So of course I replied, uh, it's for me, and pointed to my obviously nine-months-pregnant self. The woman seriously did another three-headed stare and said she couldn't believe I was that pregnant. Good times!

[dannic]

Sounds like fun!

[sunfish21]

HA! I just went through this but did most of my sleuthing online so as to avoid people (and looks) like this. Of course, I needed someone to come out to the house after DS was born to verify that there was a newborn here and that it appeared (???) that I had just given birth. Bizarre world.

[ErinsJuneBug]

oh what a big headache! The last homebirth in our town before my little guy was sometime in 1950! haha. I had to go back 4 or 5 times. You dont even want to know what it took to get a SSN!

[rootzdawta]

I went to the city clerk totally expecting problems. Unbelievably, it was very straightforward and professional. Same thing with the social security office. But then I live right outside of NYC in a small city so maybe they get more requests like mine than other place.