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01-17-2013 at 3:07 PM
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Baptism Questions

Hello! Just wondering what you Christian ladies are doing out there (or any non-Christians that feel they want to input)...

How old will your baby be for baptism?

When did/will you ask the God-parents/sponsors to play their role?

 PS - I am Missouri-Synod Lutheran - we are picking 4 sponsors (2 family members and 2 church members) but DH and I aren't sure at what point to ask them if they will do us the honor and when to schedule the baptism for - we were thinking at 1-2 months old, but I was wondering if that seemed to early...
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01-17-2013 at 3:11 PM
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Im baptized Catholic but will be baptizing LO Christian.  Still not done yet and next week he is 6 months old since my sister (his godmother) lives across the country and has only certain times she can take off.

As far as how old your LO will be...I'd say 1 - 2 months is fairly standard.  In the Catholic faith I believe they want it done practically ASAP.   I would call your church and talk to whoever arranges the baptisms.  They would have a good idea of age. 
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01-17-2013 at 3:18 PM
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DD is a baptized Catholic (as are DH and I), and she was 6 months old at her ceremony.

We had to pick 2 godparents, so we chose my brother and DH's sister.  We asked them to be the godparents shortly after we decided to baptize DD, which was maybe a month or two after she was born.

If you want to baptize LO at 1-2 months, I would say that you should ask your intended godparents soon.  

BTW, I think that age is fine, but I personally felt like a big old mess after DD was born and probably wouldn't have been able to get myself together and looking presentable until closer to 2 months.  Everyone is different though.

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01-17-2013 at 4:00 PM
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I'm MissouriSynod Lutheran as well, and DH is Reform. We'll be baptizing baby around 23 months old at a nearby Christian church, since he is military and we are now on te East Coast, where DH has attended for years and we are very close to the pastor and family. It's the same pastor who married us, and his son is DHs best friend. We'll be asking DHs best friend to be the godfather after baby is born. Not sure who we will ask to be godmother though...
 
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01-17-2013 at 5:01 PM
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DH and I plan on Baptizing LO when he is about 2 months old after he has received his first set of vaccines. While we could get LO Baptized after lent, it is traditional for both my family and DH's family to have a gathering at the house after the Baptism, so I want to make sure LO has his first vaccines before that.

As for asking the Godparents, DH and I asked them over Christmas. We ended up buying a Godparent frame and put a note in the frame asking if they would like to be his Godparent.

But there isn't a time frame as to when you have to have your LO baptized.  It can be as early or late as you want; it just depends on what you are comfortable with.
 
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01-17-2013 at 8:13 PM
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get out of town, we're LCMS as well. I didn't think there were too many of us. Small world. 

We got DS baptized when he was six weeks old. We did it over a holiday weekend, because that just made it a bit easier for all of our family to be there. We chose the date pretty far in advance (some time in my 2nd trimester...). We asked the Godparents during the third trimester.  

I don't think there is such a thing as "too early". 
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01-17-2013 at 8:27 PM
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We're Catholic and since DH is military and both godparents are, we're having it done when DS is 2.5 months old over President's Day weekend.  While you're technically not allowed to baptize during Lent, our priest isn't super strict about it and we only have so many weekends we can get godparents in town from North Carolina and Texas (we're in Kansas).  We asked them to be godparents sometime towards the beginning of my third trimester, but we had asked another friend to be godfather, but he'll be deployed, so he deferred to someone who will be in country. So, we've been thinking about it since probably beginning of second tri
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01-17-2013 at 8:53 PM
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We had DS baptized at seven weeks. We'd asked DH's sister to be the godmother about halfway through my pregnancy, but because she was not an actively practicing Catholic our parish required us to have another godparent, and so about three weeks before the baptism we asked his stepsister. Neither of my SILs had to do anything other than show up; we hosted the reception for our parents and siblings at our house afterward.

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01-17-2013 at 10:04 PM
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DH was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian.  We go to a Presbyterian church now.  Our church only does baptisms 4x/yr so we're set into that schedule.  I think DD1 was almost 6mo and DD2 was almost 4mo.  We also wanted to make sure the girls would fit into the family baptism gown.

We didn't select 'godparents' since DH's tradition is to have a family member but we're the only ones of our generation/age group who goes to church.
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01-18-2013 at 9:21 AM
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DH and I are both Catholic and plan have the baptism late summer bc we want to do a BBQ after. LO will be around 78 weeks at that point. We debated a little about godfather but knew even before getting pg who godparents would most likely be. Bc we went through fertility treatment and getting pg wasn't a surprise we are doing a sex reveal and really wanted godparents a part of that so we asked them pretty early on.
 
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01-19-2013 at 3:54 AM
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We do baby dedications (non-denominational Protestant) and our kids were in the 4-10 month range.  Unfortunately, the churches we've attended only do baby dedications a couple of times a year (one does them ONLY on Mother's Day -which was very inconvenient but we went with it obviously).  I've seen kids who are like 4-5 years old.  My sister (Catholic) had her kids baptized after they were well over the baby or toddler stage because that is how old they were when she herself became Catholic.

As far as asking godparents (which we did)...I'd say it was a good 2-3 months before...but our godparents ahd to fly in.
 
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01-19-2013 at 4:41 PM
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I'm WELS.  We had DS baptized when he was almost 2 weeks old.  (My parents were visiting for about a month, so the combination of believing baptism is very important and their visit led us to have DS baptized right away.)  We asked my brother and DH's sisters to be the Godparents 1-2 weeks before DS was born. 
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01-19-2013 at 11:23 PM
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We're gonna let our son decide himself if he wants to be baptized when he's a bit older.

And we don't do the whole god-parent thing. 
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