Registering a home birth
Part of the Births and registration topic
Understand how to register the birth of a baby not born in a hospital.
In short
Register your baby before they’re 8 weeks old (that’s within 60 days) if they were born in Queensland.
It’s free to do.
This includes stillborn children carried in the womb for 20 weeks or weighing 400g or more.
You need to register the birth of your child.
To finalise the registration, a notice of birth form must also be completed.
Who completes and submits the notice of birth form will depend on who was present at the birth. It will also depend if the baby was taken to a hospital.
The hospital will complete a notice of birth form and submit it for you.
The doctor or midwife will complete a notice of birth form and submit it for you.
A notice of birth form must be completed and signed by either:
- a person other than the birth mother
- if the birth mother was alone, the birth mother.
Email the completed form to m-bdm-online-birth-registration@justice.qld.gov.au.
We may contact you to request more information to prove the birth if a doctor or midwife was not present.
Managed by: Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages