I need help.
DS is 10 months old. Sleep is really important to us (I went back to work at 4 months to a job where being tired could kill someone) so it's something we've always worked hard on from very early on.
Until recently DS was sleeping well, with usual rough patches due to illness/teeth. Bedtime routine starting at 6pm, left in cot with dummy and muslin by 6.30pm, asleep within 15 mins. Occasional night wake ups but often self settled or if not would be straight back to sleep with reinsertion of dummy. Awake for the day between 6.30 and 7am. All good.
For the past couple of weeks he's been waking multiple times a night very upset (rather than just whingy) and takes ages to calm down. Have been fairly strict about staying in cot so sit and rub back til he falls asleep again. Things got better for a couple of night and thought we'd cracked it. The past two nights have been terrible. He wakes up, then stands in his cot and flings himself backwards, hitting his head and obviously screaming. He does this multiple times. I try to lie him back down but he just rolls over and gets back up. Eventually have resorted to taking him into bed with me, where he goes straight to sleep and doesn't wake til my alarm goes off.
But I hate co sleeping. I barely sleep and my job means I'm sometimes on call overnight so having him in the same room as us, let alone the same bed, causes chaos.
I need some ideas. I have no idea how to tackle this. Happy for short term pain for long term gain and DH will be on board with any plans.