up vote 33 down vote. The only place I come across octal literals these days is when dealing with the permission bits on files in Linux, which are normally represented as 3 octal digits, where each digit represents the permissions for the file owner, group and other users respectively.
1 The average age to stop swaddling baby is around 3 or 4 months of age.  Newborns are born with a startle reflex, called the Moro reflex, and most babies donât outgrow it until 4 or 5 months of age.
With those basics in mind, the straightforward answer to your questions is that it's reasonable to stop burping a baby when he no longer seems to need it--either because there doesn't seem to be any air to get out, or because he's not bothered by what air there may be. Whether this is at two weeks or nine months, the bottom line is that if there is no air to get out, then you don't need to burp. &amp;#8212; by Laura Jana, M.D., F.A.A.P. Anonymous