Christening Advice?

In my church, you can baptise at any age. I only baptised my eldest son when he was 3 but baptised my youngest this last Sunday and he is now 9 months. I think you can do it when you are ready.

How we did it, I called the church to tell them I would like to do it. They gave me dates on when they will be doing it next. I decided on my date. We had to fill in a register and had to attend a baptism seminar at the church. It didnt cost us anything.

In our church the norm is 3 months and anything older than that is frowned upon. That said my LG still hasn't been christened because she had terrible stranger anxiety from 10 weeks till 5.5 months and I couldn't do that to a church (think she would have cracked a few lead glass windows with her screaming)

I was told to dose her before hand to calm her but couldn't for the life of me do it so decided to just wait.

Don't know what I'm waiting for anymore though

Cherikey - you can do it when it suits you. Some people do it as late as 1 year, others do it as early as 1 month old. THe 'norm', I think is about 3-5 months old.

If you do not really go to a specific church and if you are in Cape Town, I can recommend someone who does it non-denominational christenings and he does it as spiritual/religious as you want. My sister and her husband are not very religious either and they chose to go this route. It was a very nice christening - they had it in their garden. Let me know if you want me to give you the minister's details - I think he charges about R600 - not completely sure though.

Hi Ladies.... this is a bit of a touchy subject...

I wanted to know when you christen a baby?

Neither hubby or I are very religious and don't go to church regularly (only special holidays) or when we visit our families.

The thing is, both our families are very religious and would be hurt if we didn't christen our little princess. Personally i want to, and husband feels we should as well.

What i want to know is when & how do we go about Christening her?