Hi Nancy. Tracy suggests dropping the dreamfeed when your lo has solids firmly established, usually around 7 months or so, I believe.
To drop the df, you need to decrease the amount you are giving your lo at that feed, and add it to their daytime feeds. I'll tell you how we did it with my ds:
My ds was taking 5 six ounce bottles a day. We gave the df at 10 pm. Our schedule was bottles at 7, 11, 3, 7, with df at 10 (most people say they do the df at 11 pm, but I chose 10 pm as it wasn't too late!!!)
To decrease, you take one ounce away from the df bottle at a time, and add that 1 oz. to their daytime bottle. I'll use my son's amounts as an example.
Day 1:
Make breakfast bottle 7 ozs., decrease df bottle to 5 ozs. Move df up by 30 minutes up 9:30 pm. Repeat for 3 days.
Day 4:
Make breakfast bottle 7 ozs, lunchtime bottle 7 ozs, and decrease df bottle to 4 ozs. Move df up by 30 minutes to 9 pm. Repeat for 3 days.
Day 7:
Make breafast bottle, lunchtime bottle, and afternoon bottle 7 ozs, and decrease df bottle to 3 ozs. Move df up by 30 minutes to 8:30 pm. Repeat for 3 days.
Day 10:
Make all 4 daytime bottles 7 ozs (in total giving him 28 ozs a day). Decrease df to 2 oz. Move df up by 30 minutes to 8:00 pm. Repeat for 3 days.
Day 13:
Drop df altogether.
Ok, so that's if everything goes as planned. For us, I never moved his df earlier than about 8:30. And I also gave him 3 oz, and then 2 oz bottles for longer than 3 days. All in all, it probably took me the better part of a month to get him completely weaned. But when I did, we haven't looked back, and he hasn't had nightwakings either.
Please feel free to PM me if you have any questions too.
Good luck!