The Miracle isn't the Bra. It's you - Whatever your race, whatever your pace, you can help beat the booby traps and put prevention in first place!

What is Team Best for Babes?

Team Best for Babes is an opportunity for anyone, anywhere, to run, walk, ride, stroll, tri – whatever you are into at any level– to raise awareness of and help beat the Breastfeeding Booby Traps™! “Booby Traps” are the societal barriers that prevent millions of moms each year who want to breastfeed, from making it past the first few days and weeks. It’s in the name of those moms and babies who wanted to breastfeed and unnecessarily struggled, suffered, and gave up, full of guilt, blame, regret; who were too upset or too exhausted to raise their voice or write a letter when they were being actively Booby Trapped or discovered it too late; who both were deprived of breastfeeding’s lifelong  risk-lowering protection against so many epidemic illnesses; and who both were robbed of a unique and unquantifiable enriching experience that can’t be bottled, that we founded Best for Babes to be the first Mainstream Cause for Breastfeeding and that we have launched Team Best for Babes®. We are building volunteer Teams across the USA to help fund Best for Babes(R) programs to keep the full-court press on booby traps like poor care and advice from hospitals and practitioners, misinformation and negativity in the media, and missing peer and intergenerational support. By doing so, we are putting more miles on the front-end of prevention to shore up the back-end of the cure! Game on Booby Traps – GAME ON!!!!!!

What we Stand For

  • Breastfeeding is a Team Sport – we believe (see our Credo) that moms deserve the best information to make feeding decisions, great coaches, lots of cheering, and plenty of celebration –from the warm-up, to the wall, to a strong finish –to deliver the goodies and to feel fabulous while doing it! No pressure, judgment or guilt for our Babes!
  • ALL breastfeeding moms deserve to achieve their personal breastfeeding goals
    without being undermined by cultural & institutional Booby Traps.
  • Moms who decide not to, or cannot breastfeed deserve our full support and access to the undisputed next-best substitute — screened, pasteurized, donated human milk.

Why Join Team Best for Babes?

Because Breastfeeding – and racing to beat the booby traps™ — is good for everyone’s bottom line, whether you can or did breastfeed. It gives a boost to your health (and wallet!), your family, society, the economy, and the environment. Human milk and breastfeeding are part of nature’s prescription for prevention — providing both baby and mom with lowered risks for so many physical and emotional conditions, illnesses and diseases that have reached epidemic levels. in fact, a whopping $13 billion per year is spent on health care and related costs associated with 10 pediatric illnesses alone that occur more severely and frequently in nonbreastfed children. With so much at stake, this is a Cause worth us all fighting for and getting behind–moms, dads, uncles, grandmas, cousins!

Where the Money Goes

The Best for Babes(R) Foundation is an independent nonprofit dedicated to helping moms get their best breastfeeding game on, and to keeping them in the zone and on track for their personal goals, whether that’s 2 days, 2 months or 2 years! Your donations help us fund the fight for a booby-trap-free environment in the following ways:

  • Trusted Gateway for resources and education about how to navigate and avoid the Booby Traps;
  • Strategic Planning with other health/disease foundations, corporations, and nonprofits to include breastfeeding on agenda(s);
  • Reward Programs to incent health care providers, hospitals and businesses to be be breastfeeding-friendly;
  • Public Service Announcement (PSA) Advertising Campaign;
  • Voice for Moms in the Mainstream Press

Join Team Best for Babes!

Join the Mother of All Causes in our fight to end the Booby Traps and put prevention first! Our first Team debuts in Colorado and we will be adding others soon:

  • Fill out and submit the New Member form and commit to racing and raising the amount for a specific event (usually 5 times the race entrance fee)
  • Download the Commitment and Fundraising Tracker sheet to record donations
  • Submit raised funds by the date required for your event to the Team BFB Leader (usually a week before race)
  • Receive your Team Best for Babes Racing Shirt! (Option to purchase if funds do not meet minimum)

Race to beat the booby traps and put prevention first!

To Submit an Event for an Existing Team, contact us @ team@bestforbabes.org

To Start a New Team in Your Area, contact us @ team@bestforbabes.org