[john mirse]

“My daughters’ birth certificates were 10637 and 10638, and Obama’s was 10641, so his mother must have come in after I did,” Nordyke said, though she never met Obama’s mother. That makes a lot sense if the charge nurse provided a blank birth certificate to the birthing staff in each delivery room.

That way the delivery staff can record the time of birth, etc. on the certificate and the physician can sign it after delivery. It would prevent fraud AND would save the physician from having to come back later to sign several certificates in one batch while comparing delivery notes to information on the birth certificate.

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I'm sorry, but I can't seem to follow your reasoning.

For instance, when and where do you say the numbers were put on the birth certificate: At the hospital or at the Hawaii Dept. of Vital Statistics?

So, could you please explain in more detail how Obama, who was born BEFORE the Nordyke twins, received a HIGHER number than the twins? Thanks.

[BuckeyeTexan]

I’ve previously discussed my experience as a title clerk for an automobile dealership in college. Each dealership received a block of title numbers (and license plates) to use when titling new vehicles sold at the dealership. The title clerk worked for the dealership, not the DMV, and was a notary. During that discussion I posed that the hospitals could have operated in the same manner with the DOH, where a hospital employee, likely a head nurse(s) assigned the certificate numbers to the birth certificates from a pre-assigned block of numbers allocated to the hospital.

So, given that scenario, the charge nurse could have, theoretically, stamped/assigned the certificate number on a blank birth certificate form and given it to the delivery staff to have on-hand in the birthing room to record pertinent information about the birth and have the physician sign the birth certificate after delivery. That process would prevent fraud and save the physician from having to review and sign several birth certificates at a later time.

So if Stanley Ann was admitted after Mrs. Nordyke, then her delivery room and paperwork would have been assigned after Mrs. Nordyke’s.

I know from experience that the physician signed a bunch of hospital paperwork in the delivery room right after each of my children were born. He declared the time of birth and all that right there in the delivery room.

So it makes sense to me. I’m sure the birthers will disagree.