I need some opinions. I'm torn on whether or not I'm doing the right thing.

I EBF T right now (and it's going good!). He's 5 weeks old. He takes a pacifier during the day at times. I use it keep him calm when he's hungry if I can't get to him just yet and when he's fussy/gassy to soothe him. I'm careful to make sure the pacifier doesn't mask nursing cues and I nurse him on demand.

Well he has started sleeping about 6 hours for his first stretch of sleep at night (hallelujah!). He stirs after about 4.5-5 hours fussy and I can hear him trying to wriggle out some farts and they hurt his belly. I give him his pacifier to soothe him back to sleep while he wriggles the farts out, otherwise he will wake up and we will have to do a diaper change/nursing session. If I give him the paci, he goes back to sleep for another hour and a half til he wakes up wanting to eat.

I'm torn because I get another hour and a half of sleep by just popping the paci in his mouth, but I feel like I may just be putting off him needing to eat and messing up his nursing sessions. If he wasn't gassy, I like to think he would sleep even longer but I don't know that for sure. But he really wouldn't go back to sleep if he was really hungry, right? When he wakes up an hour and a half later, there is no paci. He won't have anything but the boob to settle him back to sleep.

I need some clarity. I feel like I'm being selfish by possibly putting off nursing him...but with things like sleep I feel like it's okay to be selfish sometimes. Any opinions are appreciated! What do you all think? I could just be overreacting. You can tell me I'm being completely silly. That would make me feel better.

Bonus question: If anyone has any suggestions to help keep gas away that would be great. I do everything but turn him upside down to burp him about 3 times a feeding with maybe 2 burps and we use gas drops, which help, but not completely. I've tried gripe water but it doesn't seem to help as much as the gas drops.