Health cover for newborn babies

[dizzy]

Hi,

after living in france for 18 months doing part time teaching I moved back to england to look after my ill grandad (who has since died), so I moved back to france. While in england I was entitled to no benefits because i have a run down house in France. When I came back to france living with my parents to renovate the house england would not issue the two year health cover as i had not worked while looking after grandad, and now as i am not working because I am doing up the house I could get no cover from cpam in france. I now have private health cover through BUPA covering me in France.I am not getting any younger and am looking at having a baby soon here in France looking after it for the first two years until I finish and sell the house and then getting back to teaching. Thats the background now here is the question!

When I have a baby in France how is it covered insurance wise? ie as it will be a french national will it be covered by cpam or do i need to get a seperate insurance cover for it?

Thanks for your help Dizzy.

 

[Sunday Driver]

Normally when a baby is born in France, the parents notify their CPAM and the baby is registered under their social security numbers and covered under their assurance maladie.  As you do not have assurance maladie cover, you'll need to have the baby included on your BUPA policy.

 

[Cendrillon]

Are you sure your baby will be  a French national? There was a post on here recently to do with obtaining travel documents for a baby and much discussion as to whether the baby would have French nationality. If the father to be is French then that would be a different matter.

Edit: this is the post.

http://www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/1/2390519/ShowPost.aspx#2390519

[Chancer]

Call me old fashioned if you like but in order to produce a baby should your posting not have included a "we" somewhere?

[cooperlola]

[quote user="Chancer"]Call me old fashioned if you like but in order to produce a baby should your posting not have included a "we" somewhere?[/quote]You're old fashioned.

 

A child born in France has a right to apply for French nationality at the age of 18, iirc.  As said above, the details are in a recent thread about travel documents.