It can feel like there are a thousand different decisions to make in the wake of birth and new parenthood, and everybody chooses a slightly different route. Is it going to be a hospital or home birth? How are you going to feed them? How long are you going to wait until you let family visit?
However, there are some things that pretty much every parent does. One of these is getting them a birth certificate, the first official document that you will ever receive. It's a requirement for doing a heck of a lot of important things, and for some reason, there is a minority of parents who choose not to get one for their child.
One such mom recently caught heat on Twitter after boasting that she hadn't registered the birth for her first child and would be doing the same for her second. Unsurprisingly, everybody thought this was a terrible idea—way to screw up your kid's life before it has even begun.
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