DD is nearly 6 months and EBF. We've been doing a dream feed since she was tiny and until the dreaded 4 month sleep regression hit, it worked for us. I'd wake her at 10.45 and feed her and she'd then sleep until 4ish when she'd wake for another feed. The sleep regression really upset her sleep though and although things have improved a bit, the dream feed has completely gone to pot.
Although we're still dream feeding, it no longer guarantees a decent stretch of sleep afterwards (sometimes her first wake up is around 1ish). In addition, she now often wakes before the dream feed, so I end up feeding her earlier. I'm convinced she's waking through habit rather than hunger now as she never takes a very big feed at this time. She's also often really hard to resettle after this feed, which she never was in the past.
The fact that the dream feed isn't buying me a longer stretch of night time sleep anymore means that I'm getting fed up of staying up until 11.30ish every night. I want the occasional early night! DD won't take a bottle and the fact that she's waking in the evening means that DH and I can't go out for tea or a drink and I can't even leave her with him and nip out to see friends anymore.
In order to try and get my evenings back I want to try and drop this feed but am not sure how to best go about it. I've seen suggestions that I should either try and bring it forward by 15 minutes every few nights or just go cold turkey. Has anybody had a similar experience or does anybody have any suggestions?