To think this is a little old fashioned...

[Bean89]

I might just be being a little PFB, but yesterday I took my DD to be weighed at the midwives drop in centre. The lady who was registering us took my name, then DD's. She started writing the same surname as mine and when I told her it wasn't she looked appalled and asked why DD had a different surname. I told her it was her fathers and she still looked utterly baffled, so I explained we aren't married yet. There was very little small talk after that!
I'm obviously not hideously offended or anything, but surely there aren't that many reasons a child would have a different surname to the mother and really, why question it? Just seemed a bit off.

when dd1 was born it was an issue for us. i made a deal with her father that if i gave her his last name i would have the same by the time she started nursery. we married when she was 2 and 3 months. now she is 11, when looking at our wedding photos she points out that most people have the wedding before the baby and i tell her i had to wait for her to be my bridesmaid!

it was important to me. but then my mum just assumed my fathers name and never married him.

"If the natural parents marry after the birth of their child they are required under the Legitimacy Act 1976 to apply for the re-registration of their child's birth."

Really? I was born in the early 70s to unmarried parents who later married (after 1976) and have never had my birth re-registered (to my knowledge). Should I have done?

I have my father's last name on the original birth certificate if that makes a difference.

Even if I didn't marry him I wanted my child to have his name. They are his children. He is a great dad. I carried and gave birth to them. They share his name. He was chuffed when I told the registrar.

My HV was visibly surprised that me DH and DS all had the same surname, she said "Oh, so you're one of the few that bothered to get married before having children".

I didn't know you had to, but I was told that if me and XP married within a year of DS' birth we could have the names on the BC changed to our married names for free.

I assumed that me and XP would get married so DS had (still has legally) his name. He was really offended in the hospital when DS was labelled "Baby mother's name" rather than "Baby father's name"

My son still has his dads name on birth certificate but has legally been known as my surname since he was under a year old! Can't have it changed on birth certificate which is a pity, I'd also remove his a-hole of a fathers name off it too if I could! I'm not being a bitch in saying that, his dad walked out when he was a baby and hasn't reappeared!