The purpose of delivery is not to secure life but freedom for one who is living. It releases him from confinement and translates him into another state where he can enjoy the blessings and privileges and fulfill the responsibilities for which life was designed. The living organism in the womb must be set free at the proper time to develop its full potential. It cannot remain in the state in which it was conceived and fulfill the purpose of the life with which it has been endowed. In the spiritual realm baptism does not produce life.
Life begins at the point of trusting faith.
Baptism is the end of the period of spiritual gestation and not the beginning. There is a difference between life through Christ and life with Christ. Life through Christ, as the source or means begins when we trust in him completely. This is the point of conception. Life with Christ is the state into which we enter at baptism.