I need advice from some more experienced mumsnetters, and hopefully someone who has been in my shoes!
I have a 7 month old DS, never been a brilliant sleeper, never slept through. was EBF, now mix fed and weaning. the best night sleep I was getting was dream feed at 10.30pm, wake once through the night for a feed, then up at about 6am. I can handle that! no problem.
but the last 5-6 weeks he has gotten progressively worse when going to sleep, as in he falls asleep on me after bf/bottle, then when I place him in his cot he flings his arms up and starts screaming, until I pick him up when he instantly goes back off to sleep. I do persist with him but this can go on for an hour! and at 3am is exhausting 
before this issue, he was even starting to self settle on his own, I have no idea what has started it all of. he has a good bedtime routine and goes to sleep straight away. pu/pd doesn't work for us he just gets hysterical and ends up up and down like a yo-yo. I am not interested in CC or CIO.
I just wonder if anyone out there has had thins problem? and how do you get them to stay down when you put them there? he just wants me to hold him all night which I obviously can't do, and he won't settle at all for my DH so I always end up going in and doing it. also tried shhh patting but he just caries on crying like Im not even doing it.
help!!! 