This question is for those of you who have had your infants baptized...
How many months were your children when you had them baptized?

I ask because we may be moving 1-2 months after our child is born... We would like for the child to be baptized at our church here, so the baby would only be about 1 month old. We plan on talking to our pastor about it soon, but I was curious about those of you here! Thanks for your help!

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Ashley H.
Member of Immanuel Presbyterian Church (PCA)
DeLand, FL
~Wife to Mike~
~All good which could be thought or desired is to be found in Jesus Christ alone. - John Calvin~

My Daughter was almost 4 months old when she was baptized. Mostly so my wife's dad and step-mother and my grandparents could come in from out of town. We set it up about the time she was born. We plan on doing it around the same time for my soon-to-be child who is due the 11th of June.

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Benjamin P. Glaser
Pittsburgh, PA
Fairmount ARP Church
Student of Theology
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary
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"Nothing is sweet to me without the enjoyment of Christ in it." -- Thomas Brooks

In the Old Testament, covenant children were circumcised on the 8th day.
In the New Testament, baptism replaces circumcision.
My son was baptized at 8 days old.

Not for any legalistic reasons, it's just that my wife's folks were visiting at the time, and our Pastor was willing to baptize him at that time. But we did find it a great blessing to follow the OT example.

I guess, my real point in sharing this is that I believe it is never too early to have your newborn child sealed with the sign of God's covenant.

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Sterling Harmon
Coventry, CT
PCA
Deacon
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"Whatever is laudable in our works proceeds from the grace of God."
-- John Calvin, Institutes III:xv.3.

"Our Lord God must be a good man, to be fond of worthless fellows. I cannot like them, and yet I, myself, am one."
-- Martin Luther, Table Talk

I would more than willingly baptize a one month old. If I recall correctly, at least one of our children was before she was one month old.

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Fredrick T. Greco
Senior Pastor, Christ Church PCA (Katy, TX)
Christ Church Blog

"The heart is the main thing in true religion...It is the hinge and turning-point in the condition of man's soul. If the heart is alive to God and quickened by the Spirit, the man is a living Christian. If the heart is dead and has not the Spirit, the man is dead before God." (J.C. Ryle)

Our first child was baptized around 3 months, the other was closer a bit later I think, but we would not have been opposed to baptizing our children at one month.

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J Baldwin
Keowee Presbyterian Church, PCA
Pickens, SC
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” Luke 10:27

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All three of mine were baptized in their first three weeks of life, my daughter when she was just a week old. Arranging the baptism was part of the first phone call to our pastor each time a child was born.

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Jacob Mearse
Racine Christian Reformed Church
Student, Reformed Theological Seminary (Virtual)
Lieutenant, U.S. Navy
Husband to April; Daddy to Wesley, Cyrus, and FaithMarie.

I always thought as soon as possible was best, and was even a tad bit of a nuisance to the Session to have our last two recieved into the covenant on the first Lord's day they were brought into Church. I am very much opposed to unnecessary delay.

Thank you so much for all of these very helpful posts! I am especially glad to know that there is no real reason to delay that I had not thought of before.

We've baptized anywhere from 3 weeks old to about 6 months depending on circumstances.

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Todd K. Pedlar
member, First Congregational Church, (CCCC) Cresco, IA
http://semperubi.rtrc.net

"Many men, after a long conversion, see more of the workings of sin in their hearts than ever they did before or at their first conversion. Now, such men have not an increase of sin, but an increase of illumination and light" (Christopher Love)


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Woah! HAHAHA! Oh, I'm sorry....I'm laughing, but it has nothing to do with the baptism of your children...just the fact that your avatar is Darth Vader while you are talking about it.

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Dan Pemberton
Vacaville, CA

Member, First Baptist Church San Luis Obispo
Formerly ABUSA (We left, so I guess that makes us American Baptists Unleashed!)

We have an hour and twenty minute drive to church, and our pediatrician recommended we not travel long distances until our son was six weeks old. That sixth week we made the trip for the first time and worked out the logistics of the drive, and he was baptized the next week. So, as soon as possible

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Philip A - Member, High Desert United Reformed Church, Apple Valley, CA.

"Reason also is choice" - Milton, Paradise Lost
"And then shall every word also seem consistent to him, if he for his part diligently read the Scriptures in company with those who are presbyters in the Church, among whom is the apostolic doctrine, as I have pointed out." - Irenaeus, Against Heresies, IV:XXXII.
"where there is text, there is hope" - Richard A. Muller

The best part is that at their baptisms, I get to breathe really scary and tell them..."I am your father!"