how long can infant go without eating?
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Newborns should not go more than about 4–5 hours without feeding. Signs that babies are hungry include: moving their heads from side to side.
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Don't feed your baby rice cereal—or any other solid food—prior to six months of age. Babies should be exclusively breastfed or given formula (or a combination of breast milk and formula) for the first six months of life.
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Newborns should nurse 8-12 times a day for the first month; when your child gets to be 4 to 8 weeks old, he'll probably start nursing 7-9 times a day. If he's drinking formula, your baby will probably want a bottle every 2 to 3 hours at first. As your child grows, he should be able to go 3 to 4 hours without eating.
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4 Month Old Feeding Schedule: Your baby should be getting comfortable sleeping through the night (a full 11-12 hours) without a feed. Make sure your baby is getting all the food they need during the day, by getting a minimum of 24 ounces total, with 5-8 ounces per feed.
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Most newborns eat every 2 to 3 hours, or 8 to 12 times every 24 hours. Babies might only take in half ounce per feeding for the first day or two of life, but after that will usually drink 1 to 2 ounces at each feeding. This amount increases to 2 to 3 ounces by 2 weeks of age.
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Your child might want bland foods — saltine crackers, toast, mashed potatoes, mild soups — to start out with. If there's no vomiting for 24 hours, slowly return to your child's regular diet. There's no need to leave out milk products unless they seem to be making vomiting or diarrhea worse.
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Adult ball pythons can go without eating for around six months (while still maintaining healthy body weight and growth rate). However, some have been known to refuse food for even longer. Baby ball pythons may also refuse to eat for some time, but typically this is only safe for a month or so.
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Before attempting to rescue a baby bird, you must make sure it is truly orphaned. Observe a nest you THINK might be abandoned for 2 hours before rescuing. Parents may fly in and out of nest within seconds while feeding. Nestlings can live 24 hours without food.
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The World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding (i.e. no other fluids or solids) for six months and then continued breastfeeding combined with solid foods for 2 years or as long as mother and baby desire.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusive breast-feeding for the first six months after birth. But by ages 4 months to 6 months, most babies are ready to begin eating solid foods as a complement to breast-feeding or formula-feeding.
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People generally can go without food and water for about two to three weeks. This will vary based on underlying health or illness.
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These studies have uncovered several observations about starvation: An article in Archiv Fur Kriminologie states the body can survive for 8 to 21 days without food and water and up to two months if there's access to an adequate water intake.
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How long can a person go without food? Two weeks or more.
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“Many, though not all, babies are able to make it through the night without food at 4 months. By 6 months, almost all healthy babies are physically and neurologically able to go 12 hours without food.” Before you start night weaning, it's important to have two things in place.
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1. Babies can sleep of 6 hours at a stretch without food, right after they are 6 months old or higher. Babies younger than that, the duration would be shorter of course.
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Wait at least 2 and 1/2 hours between feedings because it takes that long for the stomach to empty itself. Caution: skip this advice if your baby is less than 1 month old or is not gaining well. Avoid pressure on your child's abdomen. Avoid tight diapers.
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A human can go without food for between two and three weeks, with some managing a little longer.