Hello, everyone! We've got a lot of information spread over a lot of threads, maybe we can start consolidating it into one place. I'll start with Oregon.
First, you want to call the Vital Records Department in Portland and ask for paperwork for registering an unattended birth. If you get someone who doesn't seem to know what to do with you, ask to speak to someone else or call back -- it's a fluke, they do this all the time, and have a very specific protocol for it.
You have until 10 months of age to register a birth. Call the Vital Records office and ask them to send you the paperwork for registration and affidavits (be sure and ask them for a SSN form as well, if you want to do that concurrently -- I hear the SSN office can make a lot of hassle for you if you try to do it later.) In the case of a birth in which there was a midwife who perhaps arrived too late, you can simply have her do the paperwork, but please be aware that this will skew the statistics in favor of midwife-attended birth. In the case of a birth you want to register as unassisted, you will simply put yourself or "no one" or your husband's name in the birth attendant field. You will also need to get two affidavits from people swearing that you gave birth, and those people will have to get them notarized. You do not need proof of pregnancy.
From 10 months of age to the seventh birthday, you will have to do a "delayed filing". This is similar to a regular filing, except that before they will send you the registration materials, you must go through the process of proving that no birth has yet been registered in your child's name. They will send you a birth and death order form, which you fill out with your child's name and your name and address and send back to them with $20. They will send the form back to you notarized and signed by a clerk saying that no such registration exists. Then you will call the Vital Records office again, tell them that you are doing a delayed filing for a non-attended homebirth and that you have the notarized birth and death order form, and they will send you the rest of the paperwork. When you've got that all ready to go, you'll send it all back to the Vital Records office. It sounds a lot more complicated than it actually is, it's reallly very straight forward.
After the seventh birthday, you will have to go to court to register a birth. It involves all the same paperwork, you just have to get a judge to okay it. I have a friend who did this and everything went fine, although she said it was very stressful having to go before the judge, not knowing if he was going to give them a hard time or not.
First, you want to call the Vital Records Department in Portland and ask for paperwork for registering an unattended birth. If you get someone who doesn't seem to know what to do with you, ask to speak to someone else or call back -- it's a fluke, they do this all the time, and have a very specific protocol for it.
You have until 10 months of age to register a birth. Call the Vital Records office and ask them to send you the paperwork for registration and affidavits (be sure and ask them for a SSN form as well, if you want to do that concurrently -- I hear the SSN office can make a lot of hassle for you if you try to do it later.) In the case of a birth in which there was a midwife who perhaps arrived too late, you can simply have her do the paperwork, but please be aware that this will skew the statistics in favor of midwife-attended birth. In the case of a birth you want to register as unassisted, you will simply put yourself or "no one" or your husband's name in the birth attendant field. You will also need to get two affidavits from people swearing that you gave birth, and those people will have to get them notarized. You do not need proof of pregnancy.
From 10 months of age to the seventh birthday, you will have to do a "delayed filing". This is similar to a regular filing, except that before they will send you the registration materials, you must go through the process of proving that no birth has yet been registered in your child's name. They will send you a birth and death order form, which you fill out with your child's name and your name and address and send back to them with $20. They will send the form back to you notarized and signed by a clerk saying that no such registration exists. Then you will call the Vital Records office again, tell them that you are doing a delayed filing for a non-attended homebirth and that you have the notarized birth and death order form, and they will send you the rest of the paperwork. When you've got that all ready to go, you'll send it all back to the Vital Records office. It sounds a lot more complicated than it actually is, it's reallly very straight forward.
After the seventh birthday, you will have to go to court to register a birth. It involves all the same paperwork, you just have to get a judge to okay it. I have a friend who did this and everything went fine, although she said it was very stressful having to go before the judge, not knowing if he was going to give them a hard time or not.