Nap routine for 10 month old

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Looking for some advice on nap routines for a 10 month old please. Bit long, sorry.

Overall goal is to make sure he's well rested and to improve his night sleep, which is pretty awful at the moment (regression + teething + has a cold + never great anyway)

This is where we are now:

Nap schedule A (until recently):
Wake: 6-7am depending on whether he's ended up in our bed or not
1st nap: 9-11am with one resettle halfway
2nd nap: 45mins mid afternoon, usually in his pram
Bedtime: 7.30pm approx, usually asleep by 8.

Nap schedule B (this week - seems to be what he wants right now):
1st nap: 9-10am
2nd nap: 1-2.30/3pm with a couple of resettles (he wakes crying so I assume he's still tired)
Same wake and bed times.

My questions are:

• Do either / both of these look OK to you? Would you pick one over the other?
• Would you suggest a different routine completely?
• If he wakes from a nap happy (pointing and clapping!) should I always get him up even if routine suggests he should have longer & he often looks knackered? Usually he'll go back to sleep if I hold him but wake quickly when I put him down.
• Any advice on how to survive the regression? He's up multiple times a night at the moment, usually just for a pat or rescuing from the corner of his cot, but when he wakes around 2-3 he's wide awake and won't go back to sleep without a bottle. We're exhausted! (To be fair it wasn't this bad before the teething and cold - do we just need to wait for this to pass?)

Schedule B is pretty much what my 10 month old currently does. Sometimes she ends up having a short 30 minute nap in the pram in the afternoon if we can't be at home for her to nap in her cot, but she definitely doesn't get as much rest those days and is more grumpy by the time it gets to bed time.

If my dd wakes up in her cot but seems happy and hasn't had a long enough nap, I tend to just leave her and she'll often nap again for a while. No chance of her doing that if I go in to see her though!

I've found that night time sleep is definitely better when she's getting good naps and enough food/milk during the day.

Schedule B looks better.

Schedule B imo. You might want to switch to 1 nap in the not too distant future and with B it would be easier to shorten nap one and extend nap 2. Is he in his own room yet or still in with you?

Thanks all. B is more aligned with nursery schedule too so probably good he's transitioning towards it now.

He's still in our room - conscious he might sleep better in his own room but also that I could be back and forth all night!

That was my thinking with dd but dp really wanted her in her own room so we moved her at 1 and all of the little 'need a bum pat' wakings seemed to resolve themselves. Needless to say I was happy at the extra sleep but gutted at having to admit dp was right! She didn't need a feed during the night by then though.