Is a cesarean cheating when it comes to birth time?
Now, the race for the baby born at 12:34:56 on 07-08-09 was nothing like the hoopla over the baby born at 00:00:01 on 01/01/00. That was crazy. There were all sorts of debates over who could claim the right to be the first baby of the millennium, including hotly contested arguments over babies born by cesarean. But should we really say that it's "cheating" to pick your baby's birthday? Some groups have different rules for babies born by cesarean. For example, a Jewish baby born by cesarean is not supposed to have his bris on day eight if that day is the Sabbath or holiday.
Personally, I don't think it's a big deal, I just find it interesting some of the variety of conversations surrounding the timing of birth as it relates to cesarean section. Anyone else heard these types of discussion? What are your thoughts?
I have yet to see a birth certificate that lists the time of birth down to the second, leading me to believe that this account is apocryphal.
Well, since the baby was just born I would assume that they are talking about the baby’s hospital birth certificate, which is NOT the official record of birth. I’m nearly certain that there isn’t room on the state document to list it down to the second.
Even the paperwork that the hospital fills out doesn’t have space for the seconds. At least not in the states where I’ve seen the paperwork. I’ve never heard them call out, “time of birth” and then the seconds were included.
I guess its possible that they did this just for fun and tried to get it on the second, but it wouldn’t be recorded on anything official. I could be wrong but I’ll believe it when I see it.
I’m talking about the “pretty” birth certificate used for parents only. You know the one with the foot prints. All hospitals are different and I would say you’re 100% correct in that this is going to be one of the VERY few that ever have seconds listed on it. In trying to make a case for seconds, the only scenario I can come up with where it might even remotely be useful would be at a cesarean twin birth where both babies were born in the same minute. The seconds would be used to then pinpoint which was older, as if it really mattered.
Yeah, that’s true, you can write whatever you want on the keepsake birth certificate. Even if perhaps they were off by a second or two. It’s a little bit of a judgement call as to what second the baby is born in.
I’ve never been involved w/ a c/s birth of twins so I can’t speak to that but it is a plausible scenario.
I actually could see them waiting for this one, since it was a scheduled cesarean and they seemed to be on the ball with the press release. As someone who likes numbers I think it’s sort of interesting. Thankfully most twins are born about 17 minutes apart. I recalled that stray fact when mine were 23 minutes apart. I think I drove my midwives nuts at that point.