Yo yo, so pleased to hear you and your man are looking to return to church I hope there's a great one nearby to you!

But good question about babies - very considerate for you to be thinking about other people there!

The two churches I've mostly attended have been very kid friendly, with programs for kiddies 2 and over, and somewhere for parents to take their younger children, if they're crying or need feeding, or just to run around a little!

People understand that babies cry and wriggle and grizzle, and DH and I take turns taking our DS out to the parent's room (crying room, nursing room, whatever you want to call it) if he's being really noisy, but if he's just babbling away or grizzling to himself, we tend to stay put, if it's not too loud.

Our church has a nifty TV in the parents' room so we can still hear the worship and the sermon in there, so we don't have to keep popping in and out ... if we need to go out, we can just stay there, until he falls asleep

We also try to time his feeds so he's asleep during church (hopefully when he's a bit older, he'll be able to play with toys or colour or something ... but when he hits 2yrs, there's a program he can go to).

But I think it's pretty standard to either have a creche running, where a roster of mums and dads take care of the babies, so the other parents can stay in church, or to have somewhere soundproof where you can go to watch your bub play, but still hear the service.

I hope you find somewhere great