https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:14:19 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2148129 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 19:53:35 +0000 NeekieRose 2148129@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>4 weeks with DD1, but we haven't been able to pick godparents for DD2 yet (she's 2.5 weeks). Catholic. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2148091 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 18:58:59 +0000 FannyMae 2148091@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LindsayInNY: I suppose that both churches started off as one back in ye olde days, so they have a lot in common. the orthodox church is waaaaaay stricter with baptistms though. the godparents *must* be orthodox to baptise a child or to be the witness (i.e. best man) in a wedding. If they've married outside the church = can't do it. we had a huge issue at our wedding as even though our witness was orthodox, they had married outside the chuch (which we didn't know at the time) and it ended up in a big kerfuffle. the most confusing bit is determining which churches the orthodox archdiocese considers to be "valid" and which are not. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2147816 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:49:54 +0000 LindsayInNY 2147816@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jedeve: That might vary by church? I know when I got married, they distinguished between Catholic-baptism and non-Catholic but Christian-baptism. You could definitely convert though. When it comes to godparents though, my local church views all Christians as eligible, not just Catholics. So confusing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2147806 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:44:10 +0000 jedeve 2147806@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LindsayInNY: @NovBaby1112: @FannyMae: I know the Catholiv church only "allows" you to be baptized once, because they believe all Trinitarian baptisms are valid (as in, in the name of the father. Son, and Holy Spirit.) So if you've had a valid baptism, it's already done! So I'd you grow up in a Protestant church and were baptized, for example, and want to convert, there is no need to baptize again since your first one was valid. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2147752 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:26:20 +0000 LindsayInNY 2147752@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@FannyMae: Sounds like both churches are fairly equally strict/crazy, LOL! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2146595 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:38:09 +0000 FannyMae 2146595@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LindsayInNY: oh yeah I didn't even think the reverse situation. Most people that I know who are in mixed-denomination (or religion) marriages, the child tends to be raised in the religion of the mother (I guess mums take their kids to church more than dads?) </p> <p>The orthodox church *can* be pretty strict with the sacraments, effectively excommunicating people who take sacraments outside of the church. With marriage, the religious and civil ceremony are done together, and if its done outside of the church and you then want to baptise your child as orthodox you need to get married again in the orthodox church (and if the spouse isn't from a recognised christian church they must be baptised). @NovBaby1112: If you had your baby baptised as catholic and then as orthodox, which church would you attend? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2145940 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 09:37:29 +0000 LindsayInNY 2145940@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaCate: I actually called our local church this week for that very reason! No one is local so I was trying to figure out who was a "must" to be in town for it. Turns out they allow "proxy" godparents too so someone can step in for them which helps. Such a pain sometimes!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2145929 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 09:26:26 +0000 Bluebonnet 2145929@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Catholic - 6 weeks and 8 weeks. They both would have been baptized at 6 weeks, but LO2 came earlier than expected! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2145915 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 09:16:35 +0000 MrsH 2145915@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>11 months. She enjoyed it and is giggling in the videos so I'm glad we waited :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2145860 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:47:30 +0000 ktdid23 2145860@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Roman Catholic - 8 months. We were living in Maryland and wanted to do the baptism in NJ so we waited until we could work that in to our schedules. My daughter was the oldest baby there, by far, but it didn't bother us at all. My son was just born 10 days ago and we probably won't baptism him for another few months, as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2145859 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:47:30 +0000 looch 2145859@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My brothers and I were all baptized within 1 month our birth, 30 plus years ago (Catholic). </p> <p>It seems more relaxed now, though, especially with a lot of families being in different locations. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2145851 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:43:32 +0000 MamaCate 2145851@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are catholic and did LO's baptism at 3 months. We had to coordinate out of town people so that was the earliest that would work. It felt like a good age because she was in a little more of a routine too.</p> <p>Something else to check into is the requirements for your church for the godparents and parents. Our parish was very strict about us and godparents having to complete a class at their location even though godparents were living 2 hours away. We ended up doing the baptism in the town where godparents lived (and where lots of extended family is) at a church who knew us and waived all the classes. So that required some more logistics too. </p> <p>Planning to do the same/similar for #2! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2145801 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:13:00 +0000 LindsayInNY 2145801@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@FannyMae: I was thinking the same thing but the reverse - Catholic churches make a huge deal about sacraments so you're "not allowed" to have a second baptism, if that makes sense. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2144390 Wed, 15 Apr 2015 06:03:32 +0000 FannyMae 2144390@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NovBaby1112: I'm not sure about where you are, but the australian archdiocese would say thats a big no-no... they have a big thing about sacraments being done in the orthodox church only (or in the case of marriages, orthodox first then catholic). that being said, I've heard of priests doing all sorts of things their own way :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2144386 Wed, 15 Apr 2015 05:54:48 +0000 mamimami 2144386@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did both kids when they were one year old, combining it with their first birthday celebrations. My son was baptized and my daughter dedicated, but that's a different story! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2144381 Wed, 15 Apr 2015 05:49:52 +0000 NovBaby1112 2144381@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are both Greek Orthodox and Catholic. LO was baptized in catholic church at 5 months and Greek church at 6 months. No clue if that's even allowed but we did it anyways. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2144232 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:22:31 +0000 SeptMomma12 2144232@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Catholic - 4 months. We'll do 4 months with our baby girl due next month too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2144201 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 20:49:14 +0000 LovelyPlum 2144201@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LindsayInNY: 8 weeks, Catholic. She was baptized on Pentecost, which is the same holiday that DH was baptized on :) That is the only reason why we chose that date. That, and I wanted her baptized during the Easter season, since she was born so close to it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2144149 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 20:02:10 +0000 Bluemasonjar 2144149@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are Catholic and I have already scheduled the baptism since our church does them once a month. LO should be about 2 months old if everything goes as planned. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2144135 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:54:09 +0000 LuLu Mom 2144135@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD1- 2 months<br /> DD2- just over 1 month </p> <p>we are Methodist, but it is very important to my Catholic MIL that it is done very early so we respect her wishes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2144101 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:30:32 +0000 MrsADS 2144101@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are Lutheran - pretty normal here to baptize pretty young. Our baby is due Aug. 25, and since my sister has a break from school we're looking at mid-Oct for the baptism. My husband was baptized when he was 3 days old. I grew up Methodist and I was baptized at about 2.5 months old. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2144078 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:19:13 +0000 simplyfelicity 2144078@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We will likely do a baby dedication whenever our church does them. We, too, are non-denominational Christian. A dedication is more of a display by the parents and church to guide/ raise the child to, hopefully, accept Christ. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2144066 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:08:29 +0000 FannyMae 2144066@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Greek Orthodox - DD was baptised at 10 months. Because my grandmother had passed away while I was pregnant, we respectfully waited til the 1st year commemoration had passed and did the baptism a week later (which was the day after DD's saint day). We do full immersion of a naked lil screamy baby, but she was amazing - no tears at all and lots of laughter all round. she peed on the priest hee hee! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2144035 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:52:58 +0000 photojane 2144035@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We go to a non-denominational Christian church, and do dedications instead of infant baptism (baptism is done by choice), but we did the dedication at 9 months. Our church does them in November, so we didn't have much of a choice. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2144034 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:51:37 +0000 Ash 2144034@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>6 months - catholic </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2144032 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:46:51 +0000 dc yoga bee 2144032@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm Southern baptist, and our church does christenings, and saves actual baptism for whenever they accept the Lord for themselves. She is due in June, and will be christened over Thanksgiving weekend so that in-laws can attend :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2144026 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:39:14 +0000 Jess1483 2144026@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>9 months, waited for his godfather to return from Afghanistan. UCC. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2144021 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:34:30 +0000 skipra 2144021@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I grew up Protestant and despite the fact that DH is pretty much agnostic we did get our boys baptized. They were baptized together so our older one was 22 months and our younger one was 2 months. We waited only because I wanted it done on the beach during the summer when my entire family was around and I missed the opportunity the previous year. Otherwise ds1 would have been about. 10-11 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism/page/2#post-2143963 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:14:09 +0000 travellingbee 2143963@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We aren't anything but for grandparents sake (Methodist) it was at 3.5 months </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-for-baptism#post-2143939 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:01:24 +0000 namaste 2143939@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had a dedication on my birthday and A was 3 months. </p>