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Women pray to her to avoid misfortune to a newborn baby, and mothers are expected to pray to the goddess after a safe child-birth. [11] Then, on the first temple visit after childbirth, the parents dedicate their one-month-old babies to the goddess, placing the baby in front of the goddess on the ground or at her feet.
The first significance of the hymns is explained in Gryhasutra texts to be medhajanana (Sanskrit: मेधाजनन), or to initiate the baby's mind and intellect in the womb of the world after the baby's body formation has completed in the womb of the mother. The second part of the hymns wish the baby a long life. [6]
The rite of passage involves bathing the baby and dressing him or her in new clothes. The baby's outing is accompanied by both the mother and the father, siblings if any, as well some nearby loved ones, such as grandparents and friends. [53] [54] Annaprashanam is the rite of passage where the baby is fed solid food for the first time.
A child dedication or baby presentation is an act of consecration of children to God practiced in evangelical churches, such as those of the Baptist tradition. [1] [2]Child dedication is practiced by organisations, such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, in which parents promise to help their child live a life free from alcohol and other drugs.
In Catholic Mariology Mary is held as having been born and conceived a Saint [2] and full of Grace, [3] as a consequence of the Immaculate Conception. [4] It is also generally held [5] by Theologians that she had free will and rational thought, through infused knowledge, from "the first instant of her conception," [6] worshipping and loving God in her mother's womb and as an infant and child. [2]
A common analogy used is that of a baby in the womb. Just as the baby cannot possibly begin to understand the vast outside world until they experience it for themselves, we cannot hope to understand what Barzakh entails until we transition there ourselves.
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Emergency baptism of an infant in Finland, 1920. An emergency baptism is a baptism administered to a person in immediate danger of death. This can be a person of any age, but is often used in reference to the baptism of a newborn infant.