<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2025/12-02/mother-wit-community-wisdom.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><categories/><pubDate>12/02/2025 04:00:00 AM</pubDate><title>Mother Wit: Community Wisdom Meets Birth Justice</title><sub-title/><description>The experience of having a baby can change dramatically from one Brooklyn neighborhood to the next. Families in Central Brooklyn face some of the highest rates of pregnancy complications in New York, shaped by chronic stress, housing instability, limited access to prenatal care, and inequities that fall sharply along racial and economic lines.</description><author>Office of the President</author><image><img xmlns:ouc="http://omniupdate.com/XSL/Variables" src="/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2025/12-02/_images/mother-wit.png" alt="poster of event"/></image><loc>/var/staging/oucampus/suny-downstate/downstate/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2025/12-02/mother-wit-community-wisdom.xml</loc><tags><tag>Community</tag></tags><categories/></item>