At what age did you have your child baptised?

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I still had a picture of my mom holding me in her arms and had me baptised…woo hoo! I was tiny (about a month old) and red like a little baby mouse. 😃

When did you baptised your child?
 
water said:
I still had a picture of my mom holding me in her arms and had me baptised…woo hoo! I was tiny (about a month old) and red like a little baby mouse. 😃

When did you baptised your child?
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As SOON as we could - about 1 month!
 
Nearly 2 months because my favorite Priest was visiting his sick brother out of state. I would have done it that day if I could have.😃
 
My son was less than a month old for his baptism. My daughter was born in February so it was toward the beginning of Lent, so we had to wait until after Easter to get her baptised.
 
within a month for the girls, 6 months for our son, because pastor of church 2 blocks away would not baptize because we are not Italian, and would not let us register, we had to go to church a couple of miles and over the freeway and over the tracks away, hard to get to with 3 kids and no transport. We continued going there for Mass but baptized in our “proper” parish when weather cleared up.
 
He was a little over two months old when we baptized him. It was winter so we had to wait til we could find a weekend with decent weather and temps. 🙂
 
I’m not Catholic… My Daughter is not yet Baptized… However She probably will be next year.
 
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I’m not Catholic… My Daughter is not yet Baptized… However She probably will be next year.
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I have few nieces living in another country. They are about your daughter’s age (I saw your profile). They are not Catholic either, I probably will ask them if they all have been baptized.
 
DS (5 yrs) was one month old, DD (2 yrs) was exactly 2 months old. I waited longer w/ DD because one month old was very hard on me as a first time mom. I was still recovering from the birth and getting the hang of breastfeeding and wasn’t even very comfortable being out of the house. So with my second, I chose to wait just a little longer. It made a big difference to me. I wouldn’t want to wait longer than 2 months though. In both cases, I think my child was the youngest one there.(there may have been one younger than dd).
 
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I have few nieces living in another country. They are about your daughter’s age (I saw your profile). They are not Catholic either, I probably will ask them if they all have been baptized.
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oops I meant to say how old she is… She is 5 1/2.

Protestant children are baptized at the time Catholics would have their kids become confirmed (or a little earlier)… the more I learn the more I believe that protestants simply have baptism and confirmation at the same time, rather than it being accurate to say they do not have confirmation (of course it is somewhat different since it is not Catholic confirmation). There has been a trend I have noticed lately where (protestant) people are baptizing children younger than how it used to be. Makes me wonder how they cold possibly be ready for it - (think the confirmation part.)
 
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oops I meant to say how old she is… She is 5 1/2.

Protestant children are baptized at the time Catholics would have their kids become confirmed (or a little earlier)… the more I learn the more I believe that protestants simply have baptism and confirmation at the same time, rather than it being accurate to say they do not have confirmation (of course it is somewhat different since it is not Catholic confirmation). There has been a trend I have noticed lately where (protestant) people are baptizing children younger than how it used to be. Makes me wonder how they cold possibly be ready for it - (think the confirmation part.)
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That depends on the “protestant”…

I’ve attended infant baptisms in a Lutheran Church…
 
Syele said:
the more I learn the more I believe that protestants simply have baptism and confirmation at the same time
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For those Protestants who don’t practice infant baptism, their “believer’s baptism” is, indeed, a lot like confirmation. But there are important differences.

In the Churches of Christ, Christian Church, and Disciples of Christ (one movement, really), the tradition states that one is saved WHEN he is baptized. Almost all of the other Protestants who do not practice infant baptism consider salvation and baptism to happen at different times, and baptism only symbolizes salvation. “I’ve been saved, my sins are washed away, and now I’m going to symbolize it publicly by submitting to baptism.”

So, in those communions, baptism is the person speaking to the observers. But in Catholicism a sacrament is God speaking to the person, telling him in an outward and visible way what is happening (hopefully!) inwardly in a spiritual way.

I think :o
 
My daughter was about 6 weeks old. My son was about 4 months old. Both have the same God parents. By the time my son was born, the God parents had moved out of state. So, it was a little harder to schedule with them. But, well worth it to know that both children would have the same faithful God parents.
 
My daughter was born premature, had a list of medical conditions that really scared us. We were not even allowed to see her. She was whisked away to the Intensive Baby Care Unit.

I called for the Priest to come and annoint her. He was a dear old man of great faith. He told me ‘not to worry, no harm would befall the child. She would live to be baptised in the usual way…in Church and that he would conduct her baptism’! He told me only to have faith!

She is now 28-years old and has produced three wonderful grand-children. 🙂
 
My daughter was baptized at 3 wks 4 days old.

I had to start the process of getting her baptized before she was born. At first I was told to come back after she was born, but I insisted that I wanted her baptized as soon after she was born as possible. Since the parents and godparents had to take pre-baptismal classes we had to start the process before she was born.

A few days before my daughter was to be baptized, my mother called and told me my grandmother was also coming for the baptism. My mother asked me to make arrangements for 4 generation portraits. I almost told my mother that I wanted wait until we visited her in 3 wks, but I decided to humor my mother.

We had the portraits taken the day after my daughter was baptized. My mother had a brain aneurysm three days after the portraits were taken and passed away 5 days after the aneurysm.

I belief that God’s hand was very involved in the timing of my daughter’s baptism.
 
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