I will comment and please do not bark at me anyone. But Howard I am sorry to say I get the same impress as Pilgram, so much so that I do have a tendency to not reply to your post because I too get the idea that you have very negative feelings toward Baptist. If you have some experience with them you know they are a very diverse group.

I have seen Baby dedications in Fundamentalist, What I would want to call Modern, and even a Hardshell Baptist church.

I have always viewed it as a Dry Baptism, that is in my limited understanding of other demoninations performing infant Baptism. The view is actually one I picked up from one who was not a Baptist but part of an PCA church years ago. I have not personally performed this dedication but ignored it. And yes, this has caused trouble or grumbling in a church I pastored.