Wow ~ sorry to hear that the parents did not prepare their child for 'group care' for you .... IMO it is seriously not realistic to expect a provider of multiple children of various ages to co-sleep children in their programs ... totally fine if you want to do that at home but you need to also prepare them for care in order to set them up to succeed at least have them napping independently and able to go to sleep with 'anyone' by the time they start daycare because it is stressful enough to manage that change without having needs that are hard to meet!!!

I had a client who was called back to work 4 months early so she did not have a chance to prepare her child for napping independently as she intended .... things that worked for me were getting everyone else into bed FIRST by leaving him in the highchair and than I would come back for him and would 'swaddle' him and the first few days I would stay with him and 'rock' him to sleep from a laying down position so that he had the support of feeling cozy from the swaddle and the human contact from me ... the first few days I stayed until he was 'out' completely and than over the course of the next few days I stayed less and less.

However mom and dad were working WITH me cause as soon as they found out she had to return to work they started working on independent napping at home without being breastfed first and so forth and followed through on weekends so the child had 'consistency' of expectations.

This little dude would not go into a pack n play though cause that was too much with everything else that was 'new' for him and he would get so uptight when he woke up midsleep cycle that he would be vomiting within 30 seconds of stirring he got hysterical that fast before I could get into the room to calm him and it was disturbing everyone else ~ so after day three of trying that I moved him to sleeping swaddled in the same room I spend quiet time in, my livingroom, and well he has just 'stayed' that way cause it works and so for the first month I was there to support him to sleep and I would read my book while sitting beside him and 'patting' his bum and from 9 months old he has been laid down and falls a sleep independently and sleeps for 3 hours as long as he is not 'alone' in the room but he sleeps even with noise of me moving about and when the other kids get up from their quiet time and now that he is 15 months when he wakes up he has learned to 'stay' on the mat until I give him the thumbs up that quiet time is over for him and its ok to get up. I have tried twice to put him back into a pack n play and he only sleeps 30 minutes and wakes up puking so I just opted for what works to give everyone a nice long quiet time cause it is no skin off my back that he is not in the pack n play and as long as him being in the livingroom does not impact my ability to do my chores cause he can sleep through it its win win for everyone.