[terycarl]

The child is indeed validly baptized.....I can baptize, you can baptize, nurses and doctors probably do it often.

[capt. norm]

As stated in the Bible (not in exact words) but faith (like beauty) is in the eyes/heart of the beholder.

Even the money-grubbing faith-healers play into his hands because the people they scams end up with the real thing, in their hearts, where it really counts.

[Jim Noble]

nurses and doctors probably do it often

Not that much, but when it happens of necessity, usually in the delivery room, as Heaven comes down and touches Earth, the electricity in the room practically crackles.

Very, very dramatic.

[beebuster2000]

so true, baptism is one of the sacraments you can perform yourself. you can baptize your child in your own sink and it is considered baptized

[capt. norm]

As stated in the Bible (not in exact words) but faith (like beauty) is int eh eyes/heart of the beholder.

Even the money-grubbing faith-healers play into his hands because the people they scams end up with the real thing, in their hearts, where it really counts.

[Verginius Rufus]

My grandmother's great-grandmother was a midwife (in a village in the mid-19th century in Europe when all babies were born at home). She sometimes had to baptize babies who were likely to die soon after birth.

(I know about this from reading parish records, not from family tradition.)