I have to say I had a similar experience as KatieRabbit with my DD. Up till the age of 11 months she was still waking 2-3 times per night. We had tried everything conventional that the books had said. In the end I was so exhusted when she woke up for the first time for the night I just brought into our bed until the morning (at least I was getting some sleep). I have been warned by everybody not to get into this habit. 2 weeks ago she just stopped waking up, she sleeps from 7:30pm - 6:30am in her own bed. In the end it was nothing I did, I just think she just had to get to the right age.

Although, I have a few friends who have done the controlled comforting with their bubs and it only took a couple of nights and their babies were sleeping through.

Another thing on dreamfeeding, and again this was just our situation, but when we introduced a dreamfeed she came to expect it and it ended up just adding another waking time to her routine.