Drop sided cot for a crippled sleepless mum?

[Paaseitjes]

I know they're not very common any more, but I'm desperate! We've just moved DS to the lovely (and stupidly expensive) Sleepi cot. It's killing me though. My pelvic floor was fine, but the cot combined with the four month regression is agony. I'm getting him out at least once an hour.

I've seen the Next to me Forever. It's nearly as expensive as the Sleepi and pretty ugly, but if the side actually goes down easily it might be worth it. Will it save my pelvic floor? Are there any others on the market similar, or just an old fashioned drop side?

Co sleeping isn't an option because we can't make our bed safe. My wrists are knackered too so shuffling up the bed to sit or doing a lift-twist is also a challenge. He was in a moses basket in our bed before, but I was having to tip him out by the end. Plus he wriggles something rotten!

I have the next to me forever, don't exactly love it but it's the best of a bad bunch for us. The side goes most of the way down with a lip of a few inches as per standard with next to me type beds.
Officially you're not supposed to enable the drop side if it's a standalone bed but it comes with instructions on putting it into 'demonstration mode' for standalone with a lowered side. It's been really helpful for me, we bought it despite reluctance on the ugliness as we had a heavy baby who needed to be put into bed already asleep and that's just not physically possible when you're a short-ass!
Another good thing is you can adjust the height. Now little one is a toddler we have it low so they can climb out themselves with the side lowered.
NB the drop side on ours is def not silent and you have to check it's clicked in on both sides when you raise it - might be faulty but we used it for ages as a next to me so didn't realise this as never raised it.
I don't expect it to last until 4 as it is not really that big but should work until 3-ish when we convert to a floor bed.

Thanks! Best of a bad bunch seems to sum it up, and it's a bit expensive for that. My friend had a 9kg 6 month old. I don't know how she's still upright! I might put him in the baby tent one or two nights a week to give my back a rest