[OnTheJourney]

I have found through this process that every church, priest and diocese have a slightly different rules around baptism.

Our experience: At first we were not able to baptise before finalization. A birth certificate was one of the requirements to produce a baptism certificate as both are legal documents. But with persistance and birthparents that were Catholic, supporting of the baptism and present at the baptism, and agreement that we would not get the certificate until after finalization, we were eventually able to go ahead. By this time ds was 8 months. We finalized at about 10 months and were then able to get the official certificate.
Godparents: (I don't have the papers in front of me so I will try to remember what it says) The doctern that we saw stated that a child may have 1 or 2 Godparents, at least one must be Catholic, with proof, and if there are 2, they must be one male and one female. That being said, I have known people who have had 2 Godmother's and no Godfather's. I just know our Priest does not allow it.
This is only our experience, others have had very different experiences.

I wish you the best of luck in your journey and I hope things go smoothly for you and you are able to follow through with all your wishes.