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| Thank you all for the good advice!
I will post more later this week when I hear what they recommend for the baby at this point. Interesting to see.
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Hi,
Later this week ended up being some months...
Anyway here some experiences. Getting the insurance was not a big hassle after we received the B-permit also for my wife. We applied for the insurance before the arrival and got quoted etc. ok, but they required the official B-permit for the final approval. So I ended up doing the the excercise more or less twice.
Insuring the baby was very easy. The hospital sent all the required documents directly to the insurance company.
Some lessons learned:
- The HMO (Call the service center before going to the doctor) service did not work so well for us here in Zug, we ended up changing to normal insurance and paying a bit more. The service center did not have information about the local health services and we needed to find all things by ourselves anyway. This has to be dependand on the insurance company though. Ours is not very common in this area (but they had their webpages in english).
- Getting the birth certificate was a lot of trouble. Final solution, go to the register office and don't leave before you get it. It took 5 weeks.
- Start the passport application process ASAP, when you get the birth certificate. I got claustrophobic when I realised that we cannot leave the country without some sort of ID for the baby. The B-Permit is not good for that.
I think these things will be lot simpler with the second baby. The only problem is that we will propably be in another country by then and the same drill starts again...
Cheers,
Pekka
P.S. Mother and daughter are okay.