Catholic Christening - how does it work if the mother is atheist?!

[slowlearner]

DH is Catholic but I'm atheist. DH wants DD to be christened, which I've agreed to as it's important to him. However I just looked up online what the ceremony will involve and it's quite full-on -www.babyguideuk.com/birth/articles/naming_romancatholic.asp
I really can't lie and pretend I believe in God/Jesus/repent of my sins etc. Does anyone know how it works if only one parent is Catholic - does the other pretty much just stand and watch? Also is it strict that the godparents have to be confirmed Catholics? thanks!!

Our situation is different to yours in that both dh and I are catholics, but we are presently non-practising catholics. We want our children bought up as we were, both baptised (dh confirmed but not me), and encouraged as we grew up to make our own decisions about religion.

So ds1&2 have been baptised (ds3 soon hopefully). During the pre-baptism chats we were open with the priests about our beliefs (or lack of them) and it was not a problem at all. He explained that it was all about welcoming the child into the catholic family and 'introducing him to god'. And therefore the child's parent's beliefs are not terribly important. (As long as we encourage and facilitate christian education as the child grows). God would not desciminate against a child because his/her parent did not conform to the churches beliefs. We were told during the ceromony to say those parts which we were comfortable with and not speak during those parts we would find uncomfortable.

About godparents. The two priests who baptised our dses told us they 'would prefer' it if at least one gp was a baptised catholic, but would turn a blind eye if not. Both dses have 6 gp each, ranging from commited catholic to aethiest, a conscious decision as we want them to benefit from many viewpoints re religion. In fact ds1 (was 7 at the time) is gp to ds2. The priest was more than delighted when we explained why we wanted this. He made the point though that ds1 was probably too young to totally understand the vows/commitments etc in the ceremony, but did not view this a problem. He said god would understand that he was only 7!