Have You Ever Had a Non-religious Blessing for Your Child?

we had a "naming ceremony" for our oldest, and drew a bit from the jewish tradition for that (but definitely in a very loose way). we had a friend "officiate", and then asked our friends and family to stand up and say a few words about their hopes and dreams for our baby as she grew, and then we had everyone say a "we do" in response to our request for their love and support to her as she grows. i had also set up tables with scrapbook pages and supplies for everyone present to make a page with a note to her stating their wishes for her, then after the party i put them into a scrapbook which i will give her when she graduates high school. we had food and a cake and it was beautiful--we videotaped the whole thing.

we are doing something similar for our second daughter next weekend, but we are calling it a "welcoming ceremony". i plan to do the same sort of thing as we did the first time. i figure, every religion or culture has some way of acknowledging the arrival of a baby...our baby is no less important!

Good luck and have fun. This is a very special time for your family and child!

We did something like this for both our girls. We didn't have a big long ceremony and just did it at our home. We had all our friends and family over, and a few friends plus my husband and I did short speeches, and then we had some readings and poems. I had a lot of fun choosing them. For example we had had the reading on marriage from Kahlil Gibran's Prophet at our wedding, so we had the next one, on children, at the "welcome to the world" party. The "formal" part was only 20 minutes or so, and then we had food, and party games etc for the older kids.
I hope you have a great time whatever you choose to do!

What about asking people to contribute a wish or a blessing for the baby's birthday? I did this for my daughter's baptism and like you i consider myself more spiritual than religious. It can be a piece of advice, a bibel message, a song lyric..anything. But everyone can write it themselves in the book at the party.

Hi,

I have a question, as I am very curious about what you wrote. If you are not "religious", then who are you asking the blessing from?

A Unity Church (metaphysical Christianity) or Science of Mind church can provide you with a beautiful spiritual Baptism.
R. Conte, CCHT

For many years I was "visiting" different religions and now I decided to be independent and trust my intuition. It is good to know there are other people following this path.
My friend did shower for her baby and asked every guest to bring a favorite bead to create the necklace for her daughter. I think it is great idea!
Let Love, Light and Peace bless your Girl! D.