Please feel free to move, I wasn't sure where to post!
I watch my friends 7m old twice a week. I've had him for several months now and things haven't gotten better. They have him on no schedule. Some mornings he's here at 730, other mornings it's 10. He should be napping around 9 or 930 but if he's not here he's not napping so that throws the day off especially since we leave at 1130 to pick up do from school. When he does nap he has to be held and rocked otherwise he screams and screams. I've tried pupd but that was a disaster. He sleeps in bed with them but I usually don't have the ability to lay with him since he and ds are on oppositeschedules right now. When I do manage to hget him down he always wakes up crying. And if i dont hold him throughout the day he cries. I can usually manage to set him down for 10 minutes, max, before he screams. Im not trying to gwt much done but when ds sees me hold him all the time, then he wants to be held all the time and then its a mad house. I try amd sit kn the floor and pkay but unless hes in my lap its no difference. Im just not sure if i should just try and do what i can here or talk to my friend? I used to work at a wonderful daycare and the parents were made aware right away that we took their schedules seriously amd that we worked alot on independent and group play. We loved and adored those kids but it isnt posisible to carry around 3 babies to keep them all happy so they knew that the babies wouldnt get held constantly. Im just not sure how to fix these issues and i dont want it to get to a point where i dont want to watch him but its quickly getting to that point. Even when dh calls he always hears him crying bc im making lunch and cant hold him and when he gets home from work he will hold him so I can cook. I've even started cooking certain easy meals when I have him so it's minimal cry time.
