My name is wrong on my DD's birth certificate!

[PhilidelphiaFreedom]

This isn't something that happened recently, but it does really bother me.

Where we lived when DD was born, we needed to book an appointment to register DD's birth. DD was an extremely sicky baby to the point leaving the house at times was such an ordeal. On the day of the appointment, just as we were about to leave, DD did a HUGE projectile vomit all over me. Not just clothes, my hair was soaking. There was no way I could leave the house without a shower/ wash & dry hair etc and we had to leave there and then.

DH then offered to go without me. I said to him "please ring me when you get there and we'll go through all the questions together to make sure it's all correct". He agreed. Form filling etc really isn't his strong point.

Anyway, next thing I know, he came back home with the birth certificate. "It's okay, the questions were all very basic" he said!

I took it out and MY NAME was wrong!

I am catholic and years ago I'd mentioned to him about confirmation names and what mines was. He put my confirmation name on DD's birth certificate as part of my name. Which it isn't!

I was gutted at the time and looked into fixing it but I was told that it would just come up as a correction at the bottom of the birth certificate and that the mistake would still show on there.

Is it wrong of me to still be a bit gutted about this? Should I have it corrected or just leave it as is and try to forget about it?

I would get it corrected just to avoid any possible difficulty in the future.
Although I think iproblems would be unlikely, who knows what situations may occur in the future or if you may come up against a "jobs worth" official in the future ...

Won't it only be the long birth certificate that is incorrect?

What will that be needed for?

That said, I'd want it correcting as I'd be concerned about having wrong info on it.

@shpoot Mon 11-Feb-19 00:51:13
Your less than 6 week old baby did a huge projectile vomit leaving both your hair and clothes soaking?

Right. I'd have been off to a&e in that case.

If the OP had a time machine, the birth certificate wouldn't be an issue

My dd used to vomit covering my hair, clothes, feet and walls daily at that age. thats reflux for you.

I don't see how it's a problem. People can change their names by a simple statutory declaration so it won't appear on their birth certificates, it doesn't render their children's birth certificates invalid in any way.

Saturday - if she later married someone of a different nationality, they move to different countries etc you clearly have no idea about the beaurocracy of other countries. It could be important.

@shpoot daily occurrence in my house. Myself or DH often got plastered in baby sick. No need for A&E! Just a sicky baby.

I'm assuming Shpoot's comment was sarcastic and she didn't believe me that newborns are capable of causing such carnage from being sick once. I'm glad a few of you have been able to back me up.

People who witnessed it would be in disbelief at the quantity she would bring up. She always gained weight well but was glued to me feeding 24/7 which was completely exhausting but she came through it 😅

I would be tempted to talk to the birth certificate and passport people just to clarify the situation and make sure you end up with the best solution.

I tried to help my mum renew her driving license online recently - she’s in he mid 80s. But could not get the form to be accepted, couldn’t figure out what the error was.

Eventually mum rang the driving license people - turns out that she has 2 middle names, both are used on her passport but only one on her driving license and the computer couldn’t cope with the fact they were different. The man she was dealing with was amazed she had managed to get official is in two names and that they had taken so long to pick it up. Apparently it used to be relatively easy to do, usually honest mistakes when people used confirmation names or not, or forgot a middle name etc. But as the IT systems used to manage the data become more powerful and more linked up, most issues have already been rectified....

Going to a&e because a baby threw up is a bit dramatic

Pretty sure if you need details corrected on a certificate it is about £90 to fix.

We added a middle name to d's certificate after and it does just come up at the bottom. We got passport for him fine. I just sent the original and the correction. Just change it ok so to save any errors in the future annoying as it is for you

My husband registered my son and managed to spell my middle name wrong even though I'd written it out for him to take. I'm still pissed off a year later but I looked into changing it and it was quite expensive so haven't bothered yet.

Have you called The registry office and ask what you need to do to change it.
It may be easily changed.
We found a spelling mistake on our sons's birth certificate and was changed without incident.

Jinglejanglefish

The OP did not take the baby to a&e. A pp seemed to be (unnecessarily) questioning OP's account of the vomit covering her, adding that if really had been that bad she would have taken baby to a&e.
OP replied
The GP and health visitor we're both aware of the situation so no need for a&e

RaffertyFair

Yes I’m aware. I was replying to that pp.