routine for newborn and 14 month old

Hi everyone,
I am due in june and will have a 14 month age gap berween my babies. Needless to say, im scared and excited!
One piece of advice i have been given is to have a good routine for both children. This sounds like a good idea but im not sure what the routine should be like? My ds doesnt have a routine as such at the moment and i thought it would be good to get this in place before the new baby arrives.
So if anyone has a similar age gap and would be able to post their routines i would very much appreciate it!

Well, your 14-month old shouldn't be too hard to get into a routine. I imagine he's pretty much in one already even if it's not strict as such? Just make a consistant bedtime and start making his sleep (or sleeps?) around the same time each day.

I'm expecting a new baby soon, and for the first while I'm not planning on having any actual routine as such. When she's about six weeks or so I imagine things will have stabilised a little and we'll have at least a semblance of a routine. I don't have any anticipation of what it will look like, though, I kind of figure I'll work with what seems to work for her.

Good idea to comapare routines - my 16-month-old's day goes vaugely along the lines of:
- Up between 6 - 7
- Breakfast at 7, no matter when he wakes up (I like to make him wait in case I encourage earlier waking by giving it earlier!!)
- Morning tea at 9
- Nap at 11 (I give him a snack just beforehand to tide him through)
- Up at around 12.30 / 1pm
- Lunch at 2
- Snack at 4
- Tea at 5.30ish
- Bath at 6.30
- Bed at 7

Most things are flexible, but most of the time we pretty much go with that.

I was just gonna ask the same hopes, when did Jacob go to one nap? We re really struggling with two at the moment as he is 15 months old now and although he still has a nap from 830-10, the arvo nap is becoming later and later which means some nights like tonight he didn't get to sleep till 820!!! Even though I put him down just before 7!

one nap here at 13 months, but some days he has a top up in the car mid-morning on our way somewhere.

I think you have no hope of a routine with a newborn until around 3 months old if then, but your older child should be in one fairly well.

It will be more luck than management if you can get them sleeping at the same time during the day

This is interesting reading for me. My DS1 is 14 mths and DS2 is 9 days old. He is still in NICU for a few weeks yet so I haven't had to manage both together. DS1 is still having 2 sleeps and doesn't look like dropping one anytime soon. Each child is pretty different when it comes to that I guess. He is also in a pretty good routine so I'm hoping to stick to it when DS2 comes home. The main thing I am worried about is getting DD to and from school on time after the holidays finish

I agree, we have a 16 month gap, routine for the older one needs to be established to make it easier when the next arrives. Set get up/nap/bed times etc, I like the Tizzie Hall Save our Sleep routines, although I just follow it loosely. Be prepared for your older child to go a bit out-of-routine for a while, just while they adjust to having a younger sib that takes up a lot of mums time. Its damn hard work having two young ones, so make things as easy as possible by being as prepared as you can - think of some activities the older one can do while you are feeding etc, even DVDs just for keep them still for a bit & you sane! Good luck, its lots of fun despite hard work!