BIRTHDAYS AND BIRTH CERITFICATES

I was born on my birthday.  Funny how that worked out.  It works out that way for most people, but there are some people who were not born on their birthdays.  For some reason their birth certificates have a different date than the day they were born.

Many years ago, friends of mine decided to have their daughter at home.  No hospital.  No doctor.  They used a midwife. 

After their daughter was born, they went to the government to register their daughter's birth.  The government refused to accept the registration, and issue a birth certificate, because their daughter was not born in a hospital under the supervision of a doctor.  Essentially the government told my friends that their daughter was never born because she was not born in a hospital under the supervision of a doctor.

I have often wondered why trees, birds, animals, insects, etc., do not have birth certificates.  Now I know.   It is because they were not born in a hospital under the supervision of a doctor.