https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 29 Oct 2026 22:43:07 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1716321 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:58:47 +0000 BKCaribBaby 1716321@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>9 months </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1716310 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:57:42 +0000 MamaMoose 1716310@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>M was seven months. My pediatrcian felt strongly that we not even take her to church until she had her shots (she was a winter baby) so I think three weeks is way too young. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1716283 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:49:56 +0000 Weagle 1716283@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our church now doesn't do dedications, but the church I grew up in does on Mother's Day or close to it. I was dedicated at about a month old. If I were planning a dedication for LO, I'd prefer it to be earlier in the first year rather than later. Once LO started crawling at 7.5 months, standing and holding her in one place became much more difficult! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1716143 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:55:57 +0000 Tanjowen 1716143@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Right around 3 months old. We had him in December with terrible weather so I didn't even take him to church until then! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1716102 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:44:52 +0000 rachiecakes 1716102@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did J's when he was 6 months </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1716100 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:44:27 +0000 swedishfish 1716100@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>R was exactly two months old. I'll wait longer next time around. It was too stressful with such a young baby. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1716087 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:41:16 +0000 Beebug 1716087@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did it when the most amount of family could come, so waited until summer when DHs parents would also be here for a family wedding, his brothers ended up coming too. DD was 9 months!</p> <p>We thought she would be the oldest, with five others done at the same time, she was the youngest! Totally surprised us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1716081 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:38:36 +0000 Sunderling 1716081@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our church does dedications 3x each year, but we missed the one that happened when she was 2 months old, so she will be 6 months by the time the next one comes around. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1716040 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:27:39 +0000 pui 1716040@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@anandam: I don't think there really is a right answer, I was just curious when other's had their kids dedicated. :) I don't think there is really a rule or a limit to when a kid can be dedicated, I was just wondering when people commonly do it.</p> <p>Our church does small dedications throughout the year (so not on a schedule like some of the PPs described) so we could have LO dedicated pretty much whenever. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1716025 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:23:54 +0000 anandam 1716025@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think you're both right. Depends on the tradition, and how strictly one follows it. In Judaism, the bris has been on the eighth day, it's clearly explained in Torah that the procedure must be done at that time. In sects of Christianity that perform infant baptism, it's done as soon as possible, usually in the first month. It's urgent because baby can't enter heaven otherwise. In modern times where most people consider these things merely symbolic, there's less urgency, many people want to wait till baby is immunized and producing his/her own antibodies, since these events usually involve a lot of people touching and breathing over the baby, so that would be two months or so. No right answer here. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1715961 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:01:43 +0000 LovelyPlum 1715961@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She was 8 weeks old at her baptism. We waited so we could do it on Pentecost, a special feast in the Catholic Church. Otherwise, we would have done it earlier, since I wanted to do it during the Easter season.</p> <p>FWIW, I know someone who just baptised their 4 day old at Church! Depends on what you want to do :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1715872 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:39:01 +0000 rattles 1715872@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our DD was 6 weeks at her baptism. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1715870 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:38:31 +0000 pmerr 1715870@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just shy of 3 months. I would have done it sooner, but we waited until BIL and family came to visit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1715861 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:32:33 +0000 Smurfette 1715861@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>4 months </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1715859 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:31:55 +0000 nana87 1715859@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're Jewish so it was a baby naming, and she was 10 weeks </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1715858 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:31:36 +0000 HLK208 1715858@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS was 7 weeks and DD was 5 months </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1715854 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:29:56 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 1715854@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our "dedication" isn't Christian ( we're Muslim), but we did our version at 7w. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1715834 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:20:34 +0000 Boheme 1715834@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>5 months! Our church does them twice a year - Mothers Day and in November. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1715829 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:18:57 +0000 Ash 1715829@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just about 6 months old. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1715828 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:17:49 +0000 Pumuckl 1715828@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our LO was about 3.5m old when he was baptized. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1715827 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:17:48 +0000 Foodnerd81 1715827@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>3.5 months at her baptism. It was the first one offered at our church that worked with our schedule and my family's schedules. I wanted to do it before winter to avoid the risk of snow storms, but otherwise I wasn't in any rush. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1715812 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:09:30 +0000 Mrs. Blue 1715812@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They were two months old at their dedication, but our church only does them a few times a year, so there were babies of various ages. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1715790 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:02:10 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 1715790@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO was 7 months old at her dedication. We could have done it a bit earlier, but we timed it for when we knew family could travel to be here. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1715778 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 08:57:56 +0000 abbydabbydoodlebug 1715778@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just got DD dedicated on Father's day. Our church only does it 2x a year.... A Sunday in January and Father's Day. She was 4 months old. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1715744 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 08:48:29 +0000 LuLu Mom 1715744@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>8 weeks when we baptized her, it was cold/flu season so we waited until first round of shots. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1715734 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 08:43:33 +0000 jedeve 1715734@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO was five months when we baptized him. We waited got family to be able to be there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-your-baby-at-their-dedication#post-1715730 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 08:41:50 +0000 pui 1715730@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DH seems to think you usually dedicate babies at like 3 weeks of age, but I always thought most of the babies at dedications I've attended have been more like a few months old.</p> <p>How old was your baby at their dedication? </p>