Prepare for your baby, not only your birth.
Antenatal preparation for feeding and the first weeks
with Arnikka de Kort, Neonatal Nurse and IBCLC Lactation Consultant.
Learning Each Other™ Founding Circle Waitlist: Join a small group of mothers, beginning in pregnancy and continuing through the early weeks after birth.
Preparation before birth. Support as you begin life together.
Arnikka de Kort offers an intimate antenatal-to-postpartum program for first-time mothers and their chosen support person.
It focuses on the missing part of birth preparation, when life after birth begins: feeding, newborn behaviour, sleep and the practical reality of newborn life and the relationship with your baby.
You prepare during pregnancy, while you still have space to think and capacity to learn.
Then the support remains after your baby arrives, when the information becomes part of daily life.
It is designed to give you what helps, without becoming another mountain of information to finish. You simply will not have to work everything out alone, and will have expert support as you begin life after birth.
Antenatal preparation for a more supported start to motherhood begins here:
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Newborn Feeding
Expert guidance on how to prepare for and establish breastfeeding, and navigating common challenges with confidence.
Make informed feeding decisions without pressure or shame, whether your baby is breastfed, bottle-fed or both.
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Your Newborns Behaviour and Sleep
Make sense of frequent waking, crying, movement, closeness and sensory experience as you begin your relationship with your newborn.
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Coming home together
A plan made with your partner before either of you is tired, so you are not teaching them how to help while learning your baby yourself.
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Knowing when to get help.
Learn what may be normal, what to notice, and what to do next, with support beside you for your first six weeks, so you are never working it out alone.
Meet Arnikka
Hello, I’m Arnikka.
Neonatal nurse, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Neuroprotective Developmental Care practitioner and mother of two.
I have spent the past 9 years caring for newborns and supporting families through feeding and the early weeks.
Even with that experience, when it was my own baby, I still lay awake wondering whether I was doing it right.
The hardest part was not only the tiredness. It was the not knowing. It was after that experience I went on to complete further studies and understand why this gap in my knowledge was so profound.
Through my clinical work and my own experience of motherhood, I kept seeing the same thing. Women prepare carefully for birth, then arrive to feeding, broken sleep and newborn behaviour that no one has properly explained.
Newborn life happens behind closed doors, it’s no wonder it feels so unfamiliar…
This is a critical gap that affects the wellbeing of mothers and babies, and the relationship growing between them after birth.
I created SuckleBubs to offer something different: clear preparation before birth and trusted support as you begin life with your baby.
I teach The Language of Newborns, helping you understand feeding, sleep and behaviour in context, without expecting you to interpret every cue perfectly.
Mothers deserve support before crisis, not only after something has gone wrong.
Because babies are people to understand, and resourced babies need resourced parents.
Join the waitlist to be the first to hear when places open for the Founding Circle.