NW hungry or habit?

[toriaum]

HI all,
If you could just help me out a little.
I know in the BW nw at the same time are habit and irregular wakings are hunger.  My question though is how regular/irregular are we talking?
My lo wakes around 3 and around 6, sometimes it's 2;45 and other times right at 3am.. the same is true for the 6ish wake.  She'll go back to sleep when I put the paci back into her mouth.  ( which I know I need to wean, but she's teething now as well and I thought it would be better to wait a little bit)  I just want to make sure she's not waking due to hunger. Any help would be very appreciated!
-Grace's mom

[macsmum]

sounds like habit and if she goes back of with the paci and takes longer than an hour to waken again then its not usually hunger.

Emma

[Colin Macs Mom]

Sounds to me like it's probably habit/paci related. What does she do when she wakes?

[linfran]

I agree with Emma - if the paci does the job it's probably habit.  Unfortunately I only twigged this when I tried to feed my lo and he would only take a couple of ounces.

[toriaum]

She falls asleep in about 5 minutes.  Sometimes it takes 30 minutes but I don't feed her and she usually stays asleep for an hour or two.  So that's a habit then, okay thanks for the input.  She's teething pretty bad right now, so I feel it gives her more comfort to suck on the paci, but I intend to wean her soon ( i'm scared to death...)

[Colin Macs Mom]

Well surely the teething is not helping her sleep either. Don't worry too much about the paci weaning - there have been many people who have had great success! Check out the props board if you haven't already.