I'd like to stick to DS's naptime 6+ days a week on a normal week, i.e. I'm willing to push things one day a week to allow us to do things that are tough to plan around a noontime nap. DH doesn't care what I do for naps during the week (I'm a SAHM), but thinks it's more important to expose DS to a variety of experiences and wants to push naps during the weekend to facilitate that.
DH acknowledges that sleep is important for mood, cognative function, and data processing in general. He's just not convinced that disrupting two of DS's seven naps a week is problematic.
My argument to DH is that (1) sleep is really important, (2) pushing naps too often (and two days a week is too often, especially consecutive days) results in an OT little one, which means he won't sleep as long when we eventually get him down, which means that he's actually losing out on sleep time, and (3) that loss will have a real impact on DS.
DH has an analytical mind and will be much more likely to make DS's naps a higher priority if I show him studies or other trustworthy sources of information illustrating why sleep is important. Specific info like "a daily sleep deficit of 1 hour is associated with a 30% higher chance of developmental delays" (I totally made that up, btw) will be much more convincing to him than general statements like "sleep is important for cognition." Does anyone have any articles or websites that you can point me towards? I'm especially interested in information on the harmful effects of even small amounts of sleep loss, such as this study
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3696323?uid=3739696&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21103518375213 indicating that the neurobiological function of children who slept an hour less dropped to the level of children two years younger.
