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I never did a dream feed and DD was sleeping 6-7 hours by 5 weeks. I just followed the rule not to wake a sleeping baby. At that time, we'd put her down to bed for the night around 9:30-10.

I never did a dream feed and both of my babies have done well with an early bedtime, from a young age. Until about 1 year old, starting at a couple of weeks, that meant in bed by 530/6. It doesn't work for everyone but both boys slept a nice long stretch early in the night and got down to 2-3 wakeups by a couple/few mos old.

Originally we did a 7pm bedtime and an 11 or 12 dream feed. But when my pediatrician caught wind she told us to stop it immediately and just let him go as long as he could go. She said that doing a dream feed just conditions them to wake up at that time.
I will say that motn feedings sucked. BUT if I went to bed at 9pm I got a good 5 hours in before hed wake up on his own around 2am. And he just naturally kept waking up later and later.
Another thing she told us to do was to try and push it each night, even if only by a couple of minutes. We did this by trying to put in the paci when he started fussing instead of going straight to a feed. He often surprised us by going another 1-2 hours.
It took maybe 2-3 weeks for him to go 7pm to 5am. At that point he was 4 months and pediatrician said to eliminate that feed by decreasing .5-1 ounce each night. And once we were down to nothing, let him CIO. CIO lasted 3 nights and he now goes 7pm to 6:30/7am.

ETA: my pediatrician and many sleep specialists say that bedtime should always be between 6pm and 8pm. Putting them to bed later doesn't usually yield a later wake up. So no matter what we always have him down by 7:30.

My kids had a late bedtime for a really long time. It was really really hard to get them on an earlier bedtime. We tried dream feeds a couple times but didn't have any luck. If it had been possible for my kids to do dream feeds well I definitely would have preferred that! I didn't realize how nice it would be to have some free time after the kids went to bed, too.

Dd had a late bedtime - 10pm, and slept through until 8am starting around 5 weeks. I was in no rush to move her bedtime earlier if it meant I didn't have to get up in the MOTN!!

She naturally started moving her bedtime earlier on her own, bit by bit until it was 7-7 at 4 months.

We always just took the baby to bed with us, around 10. She just hung out in the evening - in our arms, in a blanket, nursing, while we read, or ate, or watched tv.