the C of E often records 2 items - the actual baptism and the reception into the congregation - usually both occur at the same time but a sickly child might be privately baptised at home followed by a reception into the community if and when it had recovered health
All these based on the belief that heaven was only open to the baptised thus baptism should be done as soon as possible after birth as child mortality was in previous centuries rather high
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