[ilovesarah2012]

Other formsMost hospitals in the U.S. issue a souvenir birth certificate which typically includes the footprints of the newborn. However, these birth certificates are not legally accepted as proof of age or citizenship, and are frequently rejected by the Bureau of Consular Affairs during passport applications. Many Americans believe the souvenir records to be their official birth certificates, when in reality they hold little legal value.[25]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_certificate

[paulycy]

I didn’t know that. I really thought that the original BCs had the footprints.

I shall now stop posting that pic.

Thank you for the info. :0)

[wintertime]

Other formsMost hospitals in the U.S. issue a souvenir birth certificate
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These documents are an **important** hospital record. It does happen rarely that babies are switched and these records, held by the hospital, are essential in proving identity of the baby.

Personally, I would like information from the so-called hospital. Do handwritten entries in the bound delivery room logs exists. Do billing and medical records exist.

[little jeremiah]

I wonder when wiki updated that.

But - the footprint on any purported birth certificate, whether souvenir or otherwise, would either match or not match Zero’s, in which case, that would definitely help determine which lies are lies and which aren’t.

But at this point it’s fairly obvious that the spineless and gutless/and/or/evil courts are never going to touch this.

Seems as though American is putting its own shackles on voluntarily.