Does Texas not automatically mail a valid copy of the birth certificate to parents? When my kids were born (in New York), we filled out a form in the hospital, the hospital sent it to the Dept of Health, and about two weeks later, we received a birth certificate in the mail.
Depends on when your kids were born. They’ve tightened up all that since 9/11. They just don’t hand them out now without some kind of documentation that is provably real any more.