the birth witch, west Michigan doula, west michigan birth photographer

Brittany Carmona-Holt, “The Birth Witch” (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, full spectrum doula, former community birthworker, tarot reader, and author of the book Tarot for Pregnancy: A Companion for Radical Magical Birthing Folks (Row House Publishing 2022) and tarot deck by the same name (Row House Publishing 2023.)

Her interpretations of the ancient archetypes of the tarot are known for their simultaneous stark honesty, poetic delivery, and nourishing softness. She is a self-identified MILF whose photography, poetry, and prose seeks to celebrate and integrate sexuality and parenthood through her lens as a bisexual, partnered, and polyamorous mother of two gender expansive kiddos.


 
 
 

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Oxytocin and D-MER (Part 2 of 2) Ultimately, it didn’t happen every time, and got better when I was more intentional about reclaiming my sexuality postpartum, so this condition didn’t stop me from be able to breastfeed This condition is
Oxytocin and D-MER (Part 1 of 2) When I was pregnant, I didn’t think I would be able to breastfeed. For much of my adult life I experienced inexplicable and seemingly random feelings of intense vulnerability and and sadness that I eventually n
My lactation cookie recipe: (See previous post about my thoughts on why we even need lactation cookies in the first place.) I made this cookie mix available in my shop, not because it’s hard to make, but because most folks don’t have wh
Yes, the real galactagogues (lactation inducing and promoting substances) are found in uninterrupted bonding time with your baby a birth experience that wasn’t interfered with by medical augmentation skin to skin resting and doing less co
Something about toddlerhood makes my heart explode and break at the same time. It’s that little run where their elbows are just a’pumpin’, but they don’t actually seem to be going any faster than their walking pace. 😂🏃 It
Last year I drew and wrote a printable coloring book with 22 of my birth affirmations for pregnant people to meditate over. On the back of each drawing/affirmation there is an accompanying paragraph from my book - to explain the birth affirmation a
Whether it’s grieving a person, a relationship, a birth plan, a miscarriage, a postpartum experience not going as expected, etc, grief and healing is spiralic. When we talk about grief being non-linear, I think that we picture that looking cha
Whether they’re your doula, midwife, STUDENT MIDWIFE, guest speaker, anti-racism educator, life coach, babysitter, social media manager, editor, teacher, article writer, *insert 1000000 other roles that Black women play in your life that they
Slides read, on a blue sky and mountainous background with an archway portal to another world that is still within our world: “People are afraid, wary, and distrustful of the wrong things. Don’t trust the government, Trust birth Be afr
Tonight I looked up at the full moon It was so bright I squinted to try to see it fully, less blurry. That didn’t work. But it blurred until it sprouted three lines projecting out the bottom. It immediately sprang to mind the symbol for Awen