My husband and his family are Catholics. We had each of our children christened in church, but I agree with you, babies do not need to christened or baptized. I mentioned this because it goes along with the next part: my mother-n-law's belief that children must be christened, otherwise they will not make it to heaven. **double head slap**

My oldest son and I were in a very bad car accident when he was only 5-6 months old. The accident itself was purely miraculous but is a detailed story; (briefly put) basically after a guy hit my Geo tracker it knocked us sidesways and then rolled; landing upside down - and we slide across the highway (far left lane all the way to the guard rail - far right side) during morning rush hour traffic. No other cars were involved!!! (God's hand for sure) My son's shoulder's came out of the straps his baby seat and was hanging by his legs. He was saved from being thrown because "something" (GOD) told me to place his blankets over his legs before putting on the car seatbelt earlier. I didn't know where we were on the highway but I knew there was a deep ravine on the right side of the highway and was fearful we were going over the edge so I just began to pray. When we came to a stop I began to yell for help and someone reached in and touched me -SCARED ME!!! I thougt it was GOD! Anyway...I handed my son to the person and squeezed my way out of the window. When I got out I saw we literally stopped 1 foot from the guardrail and the traffic was stopped in a complete line as if a wall was put up. (I get chills as I write this because I know for a fact this was God's handy work!) There were 7 cars of witnesses and they all helped. They took my son and was washing the blood off his cuts and were doing their best to keep me calm.

SOO -- this brings me (finally) to my original point: my mother-n-law, cried and said to my husband and I, "You HAVE TO GET HIM CHRISTENED! YOU CAN NOT PUT IT OFF ANY LONGER! HE ALMOST LOST HIS LIFE!!!" Honestly, I wanted to laugh at her...but knew this would not be respectful. I didn't even do the christian thing and tell her that God was there and he did protect us!! I was wiped...didn't think about it.

Young children and babies are innocent and God will bring them home...that is what I believe. They are too young to be held accountable for their actions until a certain age.