Services and information on the topic: After the birth
What paperwork do you have to do after the birth of a child? For example, publishing the birth announcement and applying for a birth certificate. What support is available and what do you have to do?
- Apply for a birth certificateOnline service availableContact person available
- Applying for a certificate of miscarriage
- Applying for subsequent certification of a birth abroad of Germans or recognized refugees and recognized stateless personsContact person available
- Applying for subsequent certification of a birth on foreign seagoing vessels
- Birth anonymous
- Certify birth abroadContact person available
- Determining the name, applying for parental allowance and applying for child benefit at the same time as a combined family benefit
- Issuing birth certificate for births in former German territories or consular and colonial registersContact person available
- Notarizing birth on seagoing vesselsContact person available
- Printout from the birth register
- Request multilingual birth certificateContact person available
- Show home birthContact person available
- Submit additional information for the certification of a birth
- Apply for child benefitOnline service availableContact person available
- Apply for parental allowanceOnline service availableContact person available
- Applying for a Multiple Birth SubsidyContact person available
- Parental allowance - calculationContact person available
- Parental allowance counsellingContact person available
- Parental leave: advise and informContact person available
- Parental Leave CounsellingContact person available
- Planning and registering parental leaveContact person available
- Registering for parental leave
- Apply for maternity benefit as a privately insured person or with a statutory health insurance fund as a family insured personOnline service availableContact person available
- Applying for maternity benefit as a person with statutory health insuranceOnline service availableContact person available
- Health advice for families with newborns