Oh getting kids on a healthy sleep pattern seems to be the bane of daycare providers existence lately .... either the parents want the nap eliminated way to early or the kid has never had a healthy sleep pattern or environment from the get go and so does not know 'how' to sleep anymore

I have had several infants in the past few years who are just well for a lack of a better word 'allergic' to the pack n play and had to skip that entirely ... they would not just learn to feel safe and fall asleep no matter what I tried ... rocking them before hand, patting bums while in it, leave and let em CIO nothing worked they would just scream and claw and get so worked up they would puke in there and weeks would go by and it would not be any better and I would have a few new grey hairs from the lack of BREAK and well listening to that during nap time and dealing with an exhausted house of children from the disrupted sleep time

My newest one I could get to fall asleep in there if I swaddled him and than wiggled the crib for a few minutes - he went to sleep EASY but he would only sleep 20 minutes in that thing and wake up screaming like you had pulled out toe nails and wake the whole house and not go back to sleep - I tried everything hoping to 'stretch' him to sleep the two hour time frame but aside from staying IN the room with him so when he woke up he did not get freaked out nothing worked and well I was not willing to be up in a bedroom for two hours and if I left him to CIO he would puke

So finally out of 'necessity' for my sanity to be able to get things done and the others in the house to be able to sleep too - I just let him sleep on the couch in my livingroom swaddled up so he cannot 'roll over' cause he is only 10 months old ... I put pillows around him and on the floor and the little bugger will sleep THREE HOURS there ... when he wakes mid sleep cycle and can 'see me' either at the laptop at the diningroom table or in the kitchen prepping snack - he falls right back to sleep but if he is 'alone' in a room upstairs his anxiety rises and he screams and wakes up the whole house!

This is the THIRD infant in 5 years I have had to do this with because they would NOT go into the pack and play and sleep properly ... it got worse and worse in there with the screaming longer and longer and harder and puking and so forth and just not worth the aggravation to try to make them do it when they can and will sleep in other options ... with the others I just put them straight onto a cot which is what I will do with this little one too but at the moment I have a full house of kids and do not have any extra cots to put him on so the couch will have to do!