My baby was born November 27th, did you guys receive your baby’s birth certificates already? Because I’m still waiting but it’s taken this long already, should I look into it?
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We had to go down a week after he was born to pick it up from the courthouse. I also just ordered one from our courthouse online and it only took 2 days to get here :)

We had to order ours and pay for them here in Washington DC we don’t get an automatic copy. Took a few weeks to process

Yea my baby’s was born Nov 9 we got it first week in December

Did you order them?

My baby shares the same birth date!!!! And, I had to go personally and get it

I had to order mine we also had the option to go pick it up

The hospital told me I should get a copy mailed to me after we sent all the paperwork but I never did. I even got the birth certificate paperwork mailed back to me but nada 😑😂
Guess I’ll have to just go pay for it

no but guess I’ll have to :(

I had to order it and send in a check. But my state also lets you do it online.

You have to order them.

I had to order them via online or mail - in Michigan

our baby was born november 11.16
we just got hers. we had to pay a third party to get it😐

I had to go to the vital records department to pick my daughters up

same

I had to go in and get it bc they need their social security card and the paper they gave you at the hospital for proof

I went to the courthouse and get it after a week & pay for it

We had to go to the health department with the mothers copy to get their birth certificate

Following

I had to go pick mine up at the courthouse, apparently that's the norm here?

I got a copy from the hospital but had to get the real deal from the health department

The hospital filed the paperwork and we had it within two weeks

Idk about CA but in MD they don’t send us the birth certificate . We have to go to vital records and pay for them to print it.