Expectant Parent Resources

Adding Your Baby to Your Health Plans

There is no automatic coverage for your newborn. For services your baby receives to be covered by insurance, you must add your newborn to your health plan within 31 days from the date of birth.

Hospital and physician providers may tell you that your baby is automatically covered under the mother's plan for the first 31 days. Automatic coverage is not the case with our plan. If you want your baby to have coverage under your plan, you have 31 days from the date of birth to add them.

• Process a change request in Benelogic. Instructions are here.
• Make sure to have a copy of the hospital certificate available to upload during the process to ensure your change request is approved.
• Bank account information is required to submit your elections as we collect dependent health premiums via direct debit to your bank account.
• You are not charged a health premium for coverage for the month of birth if the birth occurs on or after the 16th of the month. If your baby is born from the 1st - 15th, we will retro-collect a health premium for the birth month. Please Note: You may be billed for 2 months at once to cover birth month and current month.

• Current health-dependent care premium rates.

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  Filing for Pregnancy Disability Leave

• Salary Paid Postdocs
• Stipend/Outside Funded Paid Postdocs

Financial Assistance Programs for Postdocs

• Child Care Assistance Grant
• Family Grant
• Back-up Child Care Program
• On-Site Child Care Tuition Support

Stanford WorkLife Office Resources

• On-Site Child Care
• Off-Site Child Care
• SoM Lactation Spaces
• University Lactation Support and Spaces
• ParentNet: For Parents Email List

Other Resources

• The Pregnant Scholar
• Routine Tests in Pregnancy
• Lucile Packard Children's Hospital - Your Child's Health University
• Palo Alto Medical Foundation - Pregnancy Classes at PAMF