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.
How old was your baby at their dedication?
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LO was five months when we baptized him. We waited got family to be able to be there.
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8 weeks when we baptized her, it was cold/flu season so we waited until first round of shots.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Our LO was about 3.5m old when he was baptized.
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Just about 6 months old.
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5 months! Our church does them twice a year - Mothers Day and in November.
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Our "dedication" isn't Christian ( we're Muslim), but we did our version at 7w.
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DS was 7 weeks and DD was 5 months
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We're Jewish so it was a baby naming, and she was 10 weeks
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4 months
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Just shy of 3 months. I would have done it sooner, but we waited until BIL and family came to visit.
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Our DD was 6 weeks at her baptism.
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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.
FWIW, I know someone who just baptised their 4 day old at Church! Depends on what you want to do
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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.
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@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.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.
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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.
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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!
We thought she would be the oldest, with five others done at the same time, she was the youngest! Totally surprised us.
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R was exactly two months old. I'll wait longer next time around. It was too stressful with such a young baby.
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We did J's when he was 6 months
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Right around 3 months old. We had him in December with terrible weather so I didn't even take him to church until then!
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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!
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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.
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9 months
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