Today I am going to talk about why I, Moonli or you can also call me Arin, creates this podcast. Why I started The Onas Collaborative, an online database dedicated to dismantling the gap between maternity care providers & parents. We will have birth stories, talk about pregnancy, labour postpartum, breastfeeding, informed birth choices, obstetric violence, parenting with chronic illness, miscarriages, still birth, and more. We are here to hold a space for those taboo conversations we are told we should never even think about. Our aim is to lower the US maternal mortality rate & address the lack of postpartum support seen across the USA. Welcome to The Onas Podcast, we are so excited to have you.