Babies evolved to last days without milk

A COMBINATION of a healthy birth weight, warm weather and luck has helped a dumped baby survive days without milk, doctors say.

IT'S not unusual that the newborn found dumped in a Sydney stormwater drain was able to survive days without fluid or food, experts say.

SYDNEY obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Andrew Pesce said babies have evolved to be able to live for days without feeding.