Add the baby to your health insurance
Your baby is not insured automatically: you have to register them. Do it within 4 months of the birth and the cover runs from the day they were born. Checked against rijksoverheid.nl on 20 September 2026.
- Who it applies to
- Everyone having a baby in the Netherlands
- On your timeline
- Paperbump schedules this within 4 months of the birth
- Official source
- rijksoverheid.nl
- Last checked
- 20 September 2026
What else to know
Register later and cover only starts from the day you register, leaving you to pay anything spent before that. Children under 18 cost no premium and have no own-risk excess, and you may register the baby with any insurer, not only your own.
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