{"id":50677,"date":"2025-08-07T16:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/50677\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T16:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:11:09","slug":"twickenham-mum-launches-book-for-world-breastfeeding-week-local-news-news-twickenham-nub-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/50677\/","title":{"rendered":"Twickenham mum launches book for World Breastfeeding Week | Local News | News | Twickenham Nub News"},"content":{"rendered":"

To mark World Breastfeeding Week (1-7 August 2025) a Twickenham mum and photographer has launched a new book capturing the journey of early motherhood.<\/p>\n

Valentina Rebeschini, a local mother and portrait photographer, has released Milk Tales: A Journey of Motherhood and Breastfeeding<\/a>, a deeply personal photographic and storytelling project inspired by her own experiences.<\/p>\n

Far from a parenting guide or medical handbook, Milk Tales is a space for honesty and connection.<\/p>\n

It brings together portraits and real-life reflections from mothers in Twickenham and across the UK, covering everything from breastfeeding challenges to the emotional rollercoaster of early parenting.<\/p>\n

“It’s not perfect, it’s not medical, and it’s not about advice,” said Rebeschini.<\/p>\n

“It’s about saying: ‘I see you. I’ve been there.’ I wanted to create something that feels like a warm hug for the mums who feel alone, who’ve struggled, who’ve questioned themselves. Because we all do.”<\/p>\n

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Milk Tales: A Journey of Motherhood and Breastfeeding (credit: Valentina Rebeschini).<\/p>\n

The book highlights personal stories of mothers navigating everything from tongue ties to exhaustion and anxiety, often unspoken aspects of early motherhood.<\/p>\n

She added: “What surprised me most is how much creating this helped me heal.<\/p>\n

“I had carried my own story like a secret. But hearing these women speak and seeing their strength reflected back to them in portraits softened something inside me.<\/p>\n

“That I wasn’t broken. I wasn’t failing. I just needed to know I wasn’t alone.”<\/p>\n

Milk Tales<\/a> is available now on Amazon, but for the mother the project is about far more than book sales.<\/p>\n

Rebeschini continued: “I hope that another mum, somewhere, will see these stories and think, ‘Oh. It wasn’t just me.'”<\/p>\n

You can find out more about the project and the book at: photographybyvalentina.com\/milktales<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To mark World Breastfeeding Week (1-7 August 2025) a Twickenham mum and photographer has launched a new book…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-50677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}