The decision to have your baby baptized must come only after serious reflection.  Why?  Because baptism does not end once the liturgy is over.   Nor is baptism something which pertains to the child alone: you are involved.

     

Bringing your child to the baptismal font expresses your commitment to raise the child in the Christian faith.  This faith needs to be awakened, strengthened and developed as the child matures.  To present your child for baptism is to accept responsibility for the growth of that faith expressed when the Church baptizes.    

         

Parents who ask that their child be baptized into Christ have the most significant part to play in the passing on the Christian life to their offspring.  Christian parents do not force their faith upon a child but lovingly profess their own belief in one Lord.  Parents should baptize their child not because it is the custom, but because they sincerely desire the Christian life for the child.