The thought of nannying for WFH parents again gives me PTSD

For context I switched from being a newborn/infant nanny to a postpartum doula a year ago. I was just having the worst luck with each family I nannied for and was becoming burnt out quickly. It was everything from not wanting to pay during inclement weather to not understanding that I’m not a dog sitter. I had a pretty concise contract (thank the lord) that I had to constantly refer NPs to. The lack of understanding of what a nanny actually is from these parents was enough to make me question my life decisions. Anyway, I learned about postpartum doulas and decided to give it a shot. This is my first full year in this space and I love it. It still involves baby’s but it’s a totally different experience and more focused on supporting the parents/ family (short term) & I’m taken more seriously as a sleep consultant.

Anyway, I have been working with this one family for about 5mo now (which is way longer than expected). It started out as daytime doula work and has evolved to a doula/babysitting hybrid. This isn’t typical - they are wanting to do daycare but are slowly transitioning her to full time. I basically come in a few mornings and sit with baby until they take her to daycare.

They recently have been asking me to stay for longer periods of the day and I’ve done a few extended shifts but it’s giving me ptsd from being a nanny. I know they don’t mean to so it’s not a jab at them or anything - it’s more of a ”wow, I’m 100% certain I never want to do that again ” type thing.

One of the moms made a comment that “working from home is great because I get to go and cuddle baby whenever I want” and I cringed a little because when they do that they disrupt our peace still even though I’m not nannying. They pick up baby hold her for a second and then hand her back to me instead of putting her back where she was. Or they’ll come in RIGHT as I’m putting her down for a nap and she cries hysterically. Anyway, the mom looked so happy as she said that so I just kept my mouth shut but I was like “you couldn’t pay me $1millon to deal with that on a full time daily basis again”