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Newborn Baby Unique Gifts

By Najiah N

Planning to give a gift or present for your friend’s newborn baby or relative’s newborn baby? It can get confusing sometimes, especially when you enter a baby shop and you see everything looks nice, pretty, cute, and useful too.

Here are some tips in choosing a gift for your friend’s newborn baby or relative’s newborn baby

1. You have to know the sex of the newborn baby, is it a baby boy or a baby girl, because it determine the color of the gift. A baby boy usually has a blue theme and a baby girl usually has a pink theme. If you are thinking of buying some baby clothes, knowing the baby gender is a must.
2. You need to know whether the baby is a first child or not, because if the baby is not a first child it means maybe you need to ask the parent what kind of baby stuff they’ll still be needing, since probably they might still have the old ones from the oldest child.
3. If they held a baby shower before the baby born, usually they gave a list of the items they’ll need. By this way, we can avoid getting the same gift as the other person, and parent can avoid getting double baby stuff.
4. Please buy stuff that a baby really need and suit your budget too.

What is the suitable gift to give for a newborn baby? Anything that a baby need is suitable, from baby furniture, baby stroller, baby diapering, baby cosmetics, baby toys, to baby clothes, and still many other baby accessories. Wrap it up well with a special baby theme wrapping paper, or put them all in a gift basket to add the cute effect.

What is a Newborn baby unique gift? How about making yourself the baby stuff, like knitting them yourself, baby jacket, baby socks, baby hat, etc. Then you add the baby initials on them, well it sure is a unique idea of baby gifts.

Newborn Baby Baptism

Baptism

 

By Monish Mone

In the modern sense of the word, baptism is a Christian ritual or sacrament stating the cleansing of sins or other religious impurities. Following baptism, Christian believers are greeted into the Church body as sacred members. Most baptism events involve the use of water, even though different Christian denominations have various methods of baptizing congregants. Some clergymen would intersperse the water over a baby, while others favor to fully submerge an adult person in a body of water.

The idea of baptism in fact predates Christianity. The Greek word for baptism has no holy connotations at all. To the Greeks, induction explained a submersion or dipping, in the sense of a dipping ship or a part of cloth being submerged in dye. There is one more Greek word, around spelled raptizo that is said to signify sprinkling or pouring. This difference between baptizo and raptizo does have some manner on the new Christian ritual of baptism.

Some of the sects within Judaism as well experienced a form of baptism before the entrance of Jesus Christ. The necessary concept of purifying one’s religious body is same to the modern Christian rite, but it was also extremely unlike in its intent. When John the Baptist started to perform his own baptism ceremonies, it was in unity with the obtainable Jewish practice. When Jesus Christ came at the Jordan River for His own baptism, John the Baptist documented the difference between his own mainly representative ceremony and the future baptism by the Holy Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

As Christianity started gaining popularity, the sacrament of baby baptism became a very important element in the Catholic Church. During a baby baptism, an intended priest showers a few drops of sacred water over the child’s head or places a few drops on his or her forehead. The baby baptism rite is accompanied by precise readings of Scripture, along with rejoinders between the priest, parents and congregation. Baptism of a baby is supposed to set up a bond between the child and God, leading to a blessed life as a new creature. The ritual of baptism, in spite of of the form it takes, is a touchable act of repentance which frequently offers the beneficiary with a sense of renewed purpose and dedication.

See also other newborn traditions, like the Jewish, Moslem.

Early Infancy Celebration

By Lisa Konick

Have a brit milah (also known as a bris), the best known of Jewish infancy rites. Performed either in a synagogue or at home, this ceremony is traditionally held on the eighth day after a son’s birth and includes blessings, prayers, a naming ceremony, and the boy’s circumcision. The latter is performed by a mohel (pronounced “moyel”), who is specially trained and certified to conduct this ancient ritual.
Traditionally, girls are given a simple naming ritual, called brit habat, in the synagogue. However, a more complex ceremony for daughters, called a simchat bat, is growing in popularity and may include many liturgical elements of the brit milah, such as prayers and songs, as well as naming. This ceremony is usually performed on the eighth or 15th day after birth, in either the home or the synagogue. (For sample ceremonies, see “Celebrating Your New Jewish Daughter,” by Debra Nussbaum Cohen.)
Shalom Zachor, meaning “the peace to the male,” is held on the first Friday evening following the birth of a son. Prayers and songs precede a festive meal featuring chickpeas, whose circular shape symbolizes life’s continuity.
Consider planting a tree to mark the event of your child’s birth–cedar for a son, pine or cypress for a daughter. Traditionally, the wood for a couple’s chuppah (wedding canopy) came from the two trees planted when they were born.
The al-wafaa is a traditional Yemenite Jewish women’s celebration marking the mother’s successful birthing of her baby. In the evening on the 30th day following delivery, the woman’s female relatives and friends gather to celebrate the survival of both mother and infant. Cakes, roasted nuts and legumes, and coffee and tea are served. Each guest brings food and a gift, and sings and dances.

See also Moslem Tradition and Christian Tradition in celebrating their newborns.