Hi, thanks for all the replies. I am a believer in infant baptism primarily because of my own experience of it, it is something that was very important to me when I was growing up.
Nettee, that is exactly the kind of thing that I had in mind, thank you. My beliefs are probably more in line with the Unitarians than the CofE these days, but our nearest church is too far away to get to easily. I wonder if the priest (if that's the right word!) would come closer to us?
Mary, thanks for your concern, I have been meaning to post to you but as you may have read dd2 was taken very ill the day after ds was born, and since then she's got better but then all three have had chicken pox. It's been very traumatic, thank you for your prayers.
I could bore for England as to why I've left the CofE but basically I want to raise my family in a just and loving church and I've come to the conclusion that the CofE is neither. It's been so painful, like realising a lover isn't the person you thought they were, with all the disillusionment and shattered dreams. Maybe I could have put up with the ridiculous spats over the gay issue and women bishops if locally the church had been different, but having been on the receiving end of the nastier side of it I've decided we are well out of it - and despite the pain it feels great.