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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.

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

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.

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.

DD1- 2 months
DD2- just over 1 month

we are Methodist, but it is very important to my Catholic MIL that it is done very early so we respect her wishes.

@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.

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.

@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

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.

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.

Planning to do the same/similar for #2!

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.

Catholic - 6 weeks and 8 weeks. They both would have been baptized at 6 weeks, but LO2 came earlier than expected!

@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?)

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?

@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.

@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.