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Again, your church has some serious problems since there is so much teaching in it at the local level that you guys keep saying isn't the official position of the Catholic church. I knew Catholic parents who were terrified of taking their newborns out somewhere before they were baptized, lest something happen to them.

Mrs. C_C and I aren't waiting for our baby's baptism. We're praying for our baby's regeneration unto salvation even before birth.

While we know that all Fallen Men our conceived in Spiritually-Dead Iniquity:

Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward and speak lies. (Psalm 58:3)

We also know that it is within God's power to answer our prayers and Regenerate our baby's spirit even in the womb, long before he (she?) is birthed and baptized:

Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you even at my mother's breast. From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother's womb you have been my God. (Psalm 22:9-10)

How wonderful it is to know that God, in His time and in His choosing (but we know also that the prayers of His saints are incorporated into His Divine Plan, as He wills), will sometimes quicken the spirit of even a tiny baby like the unborn infant David, who was Regenerated unto Spiritual Life long before he was even old enough to make a conscious choice about anything.