This is why a newborn baby is stamped with feet

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Photo of the sole of the baby / special

Jakarta, Spasi- id.com.
The foot stamp is not just a memory or a prank. There's a reason behind the baby's foot stamp.

Fingerprints are very common in various documents, including school diploma. Fingerprints became a unique natural ID. Everyone has a different fingerprint.

But instead of fingerprints, in newborns, it's the foot stamp.
This tradition is said to have started 1960 years ago. It's meant for identification and avoiding babies to exchange identities during the hospital.

"What they found in the 1980s was less than five percent of the newborns can be used for identification,

Like fingerprints, the footprints of every human being are also unique. It's like being poked from the US Birth Certificates, because of this concept, hospitals take the sole stamp of a newborn baby and mothers simultaneously.

Hospital every week has hundreds of newborns, especially in big hospitals. The foot stamp will help identify the baby and its mother.

This foot stamp will be placed on the birth certificate following the baby's photo, the full name of the baby, the parent's name, and the domicile.