Dreamfeed help

Hey, I've been trying to figure out for ages how to post on these forums and just now figured out all i needed was a more acceptable forum name!
I have 1 4 1/2 month old boy who is a great self-settler. I introduced a dreamfeed at about 2 1/2 months just because we changed his bedtime to 7 instead or 9:30ish. It's never really seemed to make him sleep longer, up until a couple of weeks ago he was waking at 1 and 3 and 5....
We got a little mean a couple of weeks ago and did a watered-down version of verbal reasurance, cos i'm a wimp when it comes to CIO, but eventually we have got him into; sleep at 7pm, dreamfeed at 10pm then feed between 4-5am then wake at 7:30.
Sooo my question is....if the dreamfeed seems to not have made a difference before is it worth trying to phase it out, or should I work on pushing out his morning feed knowing that he is getting heaps at his dreamfeed? Concentrate on him sleeping all the way through before messing with is dreamfeed.
I know there are a few dreamfeeding posts already but all the ones a read, the babies seemed to be sleeping through to 7am as soon as the dreamfeed started.
Occasionally my DS will wake up at 9:30/10pm before his dreamfeed, so is that a sign he still needs it.
He has 6 BF's during the day and a formula feed (220ml) at his dreamfeed.
Any ideas would be appreciated! Or your experiences with your children.
I'd like to make it clear that I don't mind the current way things work but it does seem that the 4/5am feed is a little more habbit than hunger, but seeing as i'm a wimp, i just give in to him!



Edited by SethsMama

My son would dreamfeed at 10 and then would wake for a feed at 1 and 5am...so we started 'watering down' his 1am bottle. We started mixing it as it should and over about 2 weeks just kept making it weaker and weaker. By the time it was almost water he stopped waking for it and started drinking more with other feeds. It is as if his body started telling him that it wasn't worth waking for a bottle of water. I know it might sound a little strange but it worked for him and I would do it again with my second. The feed more at the other feeds to compensate...mother nature made them that way so you don't have to worry that one watery feed would upset his nutrition.

So they day I posted my son came down with broncolitis! So everything went out the window.
But to a reasonably normal routine now, I'm thinking I'll keep the dreamfeed til his solids are established. He is still waking at around 4:30 but I KNOW now that this is for comfort because he has had nights when he's slept til 7.
I think I may try reducing the feed time at the 4am feed like you suggested clobug. Hopefully when his cough is completely gone he'll push it out naturally anyway. I just hate leaving him to cry, and pushing out the time that way!
Thanks so much for all the feedback guys, I'm out in the wop wops so it's nice to bounce questions off people!