Pregnancy to Postpartum Support for Feeding, Sleep & Newborn Life

Prepare for breastfeeding and the first weeks with your baby.

Evidence-based education and support from pregnancy into postpartum, helping families understand breastfeeding, newborn sleep and behaviour, and their transition into motherhood.

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Arnikka de Kort
IBCLC Lactation Consultant • Neonatal Registered Nurse • NDC Practitioner

What support are you looking for?

Your baby is new.

So is this version of you.

A person in white clothing swimming underwater in a pool, with their arms extended and hair flowing behind them.

You’re meeting your baby, and they’re meeting you.

There is feeding to learn, broken nights to move through and a whole new little person whose sounds, cues and needs you’re beginning to understand.

You aren’t meant to know it all from day one. It evolves in relationship.

I’m here to help you understand how to prepare, feel more confident, and navigate the journey of feeding, sleep and your relationship with your baby.

Choose your support

Pregnancy

Close-up of a person holding their stomach with both hands, wearing striped shorts, against a clear blue sky.
Close-up of a person holding their stomach with both hands, wearing striped shorts, against a clear blue sky.

Prepare for your baby

Prepare for breastfeeding and the first weeks before your baby arrives.

Feeding

A person breastfeeding a baby with their arm wrapped around the baby's chest. The baby has dark hair and is nursing on the person's breast. The scene is in black and white.
A person breastfeeding a baby with their arm wrapped around the baby's chest. The baby has dark hair and is nursing on the person's breast. The scene is in black and white.

Feeding Support

Individual IBCLC care for all things breastfeeding, bottle feeding, lactation, infant growth and development.

Sleep

Black and white photo of a newborn baby sleeping on a crib with a blanket covering part of their body, inside a glass enclosure.
Black and white photo of a newborn baby sleeping on a crib with a blanket covering part of their body, inside a glass enclosure.

Sleep Support

Responsive, attachment-informed sleep support that understands infant development and evidence based sleep science.


The relationship between you and your baby is at the the heart of how I work.

Sucklebubs brings together breastfeeding physiology, newborn development and your transition into motherhood, because feeding, sleep, behaviour and wellbeing are all interconnected.

Meet Arnikka.

A smiling woman with glasses holding a newborn baby in a hospital room.
A smiling woman with glasses holding a newborn baby in a hospital room.

I’m an IBCLC Lactation Consultant, AHPRA Registered Nurse (Neonatal), NDC practitioner and Mum of two.

For the past ten years, I’ve cared for newborns and supported families through feeding, sleep and the early weeks of parenthood.

I created Sucklebubs because I believe education and care for breastfeeding and the relationship between a mother and baby should begin before birth, and continue through your transition into motherhood. I believe the foundational education for this season is essential to begin in pregnancy - before you are tired, recovering and trying to learn everything all at once for the very first time...

Families deserve clear, evidence-based preparation during pregnancy, with trusted support that can continue once their baby arrives.

My work brings together breastfeeding, newborn development, sleep, sensory needs and the real experience of early parenthood. I look at you and your baby together, rather than treating feeding, sleep or behaviour as separate entities.

My role is to help you prepare, know when to reach for help, and have somewhere trusted to turn when you need it.

Find the support you need right now.

Whether you are preparing for your baby or already navigating feeding and sleep, start with the support that fits where you are.