Home births

If a birth occurs outside an institution and is not attended by a physician or midwife, or is not witnessed by a physician or midwife immediately after the birth, the parents are required to provide additional documents approved by the state registrar to prove the mother was pregnant, the child was born alive, and the child was born in North Dakota, before the birth will be registered. If the parents are unable or unwilling to provide all the additional documents, the birth may only be registered by an order received from a court of competent jurisdiction. The parents shall complete the informational worksheets containing all the birth facts, regardless of the terms of the order.