Have you ever encountered difficulty having your infant or young child receive Holy Communion in a Latin Rite parish?

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Have you ever encountered difficulty having your infant or young child receive Holy Communion in a Latin Rite parish?
 
I don’t know about other parishes but it is not a problem in my parish because our priest is very knowledgeable about the Eastern Catholic Churches by the way I think this is a great question
 
It doesn’t really come up all that often, but when it does it has never been a problem. We occasionally attend daily Mass at a nearby parish, but it is often my own pastor who says the Mass. On other occasions, we have approached the priest well ahead of time to let him know the situation. Five different priests have given my young children Communion. One of them had to check first in order to make sure it was okay, but came back within five minutes to let us know that it was fine. On other occasions, when we haven’t had a chance to talk to the priest, we just tell our children that they can’t receive that day. The Communion line isn’t the time to explain to someone why your 2-year-old is approaching to receive.
 
Even though I basically believe the two-lung ecclesiology, this has been enough to keep me away from the RC.
 
This is what I observed; There was a child that the deacon gave communion to and she took a bite out of it like it was a cookie.
 
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