how old was your LO at their Baptism/Christening?

due to scheduling conflicts we are looking at September for DS's Baptism. he will be 3 months at the time.

how old was your LO at their baptism? i know there is no standard age and a lot of people even do it later, i just feel like its older than i had wanted him to be but there's no way around it. There's also really no reason that i need him baptized before than, i guess it was just a preference

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DD was 3 months. I chose this age because I heard their immune systems are a bit stronger at this point and I was concerned about her being around so many people.

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5 months. I wanted it earlier but there was no way around it.

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My DD was baptized the day she turned 4 months old (January 9th). I felt it was older than I would've liked, but I didn't want to do it in the middle of the fall/winter holiday season.

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almost 4m

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Almost 3m

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7 months exactly. We waited because we have a great backyard and since dd is born in the winter we can never have her parties outside so we decided to have her Christening party in the yard so we waited until summer. There were 4 other babies who got baptized with dd. 1 was only a few weekold. 1 was 3 months. My dd was 7 months and the other was 9 months

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DS was six months old. He was born in October and I wanted to wait until the weather was warmer.

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DS1 was 8 weeks, planning the same for DS2.

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I am doing mine quickly. Tyler will be 7 weeks old because I have family coming from out of town.

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i think 3 months is actually within normal range. my son will actually be 4 months because we were trying to give my moms pocketbook a break from flying back and forth & we wanted to do it on a saturday so she wouldn't have to rush to fly back home ON his baptism day.

ETA: even the nun told me most parents wait about 3 mos. and they even recommend waiting due to immune systems / shots etc.

Message edited 7/20/2011 7:25:46 PM.

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DD will be just shy of 4 mos at her baptism.

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My daughter was 3 months and she was the youngest one that day. Some of the children were walking and talking!

We waited until the first available time after she got her first set of shots at her 2 month appointment as per her pediatricians recommendations, especially if we were planning on having a party after and she would be around lots of people.

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DS was 3 months. he was born late oct..with thanksgiving/xmas/and new years in there, I couldnt deal with it. He was baptized the week after new years so he shy of 3 months.

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Both of my DDs were 3 months

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a few days before he was 3 months

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our first DD was 2.5 mths. DD #2 will be 3.5 mths.

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3.5 months for both.

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4 months

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a week shy of 3 months

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9 months. Later than we wanted, but we have a big family and there was a lot going on that year, so we didn't have much choice. All worked out fine- he was a very happy boy that day and we all had a great time!

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we're planning on doing it when she's 3 months also

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DD was 2 1/2 months and she was the youngest baby at the baptism.

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DD1 was around 2 months old
DD2 was just shy of 10 months we had moved from Brooklyn and just had alot going so it took us MUCH longer than we wanted.

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We just had the girls Christened last Sunday. They were a little over 3 months.

DS was almost 4 months when we did his.