Birth certificate and adoption?

Question

I am wondering once the adoption is finalized and we get the new birth certificate will we be listed as the parents? What about the hospital and attending phyician will it be listed as well and time of birth along with the weight? I guess what I want to know is will the birth certificate look any different than others?

Answer 1

It will look no diffrent then if you had given birth to the child. You and your husband names will appear on the BC, but that will be the only difference.  Unless the baby had a name and you decided to change it. But not all babies put up for adoption get a name, other then Baby [gender] [surname] and thats no name at all.

Answer 2

Well it will look like mine, which is to say that it will be full of lies.

Answer 3

yes you will be listed as the parents it may list the hospital..as well as the time...mine does not list that but it does have my adopted parents names on it ..it doesnt really look any different than a normal birth certificate ...i thinki was born at home which is why mine has no hospital listed

Answer 4

From my experience, it will be the same.  The only difference is that you and your husband will be listed as the parents.  I would however retain a copy of the original for you son or daughter so that they can have this info in the future if the choose to search once they are of age.

Answer 5

My amended birth certificate lists my adoptive parents as if they were my biological progenitors.  My two adopted siblings are listed as "previous births to mother."  DOB, location, doctor are still the same.  

Different parts of my birth certificate were filled out at different times and with three different typewriters (the old days!).  If you know to look for that, it is obvious.  My birth certificate was registered with the county clerk over a year after my birth.  Normally, birth certificates are filed within days of the birth.

The original birth certificate is not "sealed" until the adoption is final.  Be generous to your adopted child and get a copy of that original birth certificate while you can still easily do so.

Answer 6

It might depend on the state. My amended birth certificate looks vastly different from a normal one - different size and very little listed.

And yes, listing someone who DID NOT give birth to me as the person that did is a lie. I honestly don't get the thinking behind changing a persons birth certificate.

Answer 7

my birth certificate had my adoptive parents names on it and my name was changed to the name that they gave me, but everything else was the same. the doctor that delivered me, the hospital, the date, time, what i weighed  and my length were all the same. it will look exactly the same as any other birth certificate. i started searching for my bios a few weeks ago and i didn't even know that the state where i was adopted kept my original birth certificate. i didn't even know it existed.