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 race to beat the Breastfeeding Booby Traps® –the societal barriers that prevent millions of moms each year who want to breastfeed, from making it past the first few days and weeks. Our participants help fund Best for Babes® 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, missing peer and intergenerational support, and discrimination and harassment from businesses and the general public.  Team Best for Babes is putting more miles on the front-end of prevention so we don’t have to put so many on the back-end of the cure!  See below for more about where the money goes. 

Who are we racing for?  

Moms and babies! Approximately 2 million moms each year in the USA want to breastfeed and unnecessarily struggle, suffer, and give up, full of guilt, blame, regret but are too upset or too exhausted to raise their voice or write a letter when they are being actively Booby-Trapped or discover it too late.  They and their babies are deprived of breastfeeding’s lifelong  risk-lowering protection against so many epidemic illnesses and are robbed of a unique and unquantifiably enriching experience that can’t be bottled.  Game on Booby Traps – GAME ON!!!!!!

World Cyclist Willow Rockwell says ‘Game On Booby Traps’, read her inspiring story! 

Why is Team Best for Babes for everyone or anyone?

Because whether you breastfed or didn’t, breastfeeding and human milk are good for everyone’s bottom line– giving a super-charge boost to your health (and wallet!), your family, society, the economy, and the environment.  Human milk is 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!

How do I support Team BFB?

Donate  –sponsor a team member in their race to Beat the Booby Traps (R)!

How do I join Team BFB and where are the races? 

You can join an existing team, or set your sights on a race near you and start your own — even be a Team of One!

To see a full list of existing teams click here. 

Upcoming and Recent Races/Events:

• Team Triangle TaTas takes on the Rex Wellness Center Sprint Triathlon in Raleigh, North Carolina on August 18, 2013 (10 mile bike, 3.1 mile run, 250 yard swim);
• Team Durango at the Durango Family 5k and Fun Run again August 31, 2013 in Durango, Colorado.  Best for Babes is also one of the two charities benefiting from this awesome race;
• Team Operation Lactation Freedom in South Carolina will race at the XTERRA Harbison 5k and Half Marathon on July 7, 2013.

Get Started

• Register. To Register a new, or join an existing team, click here. You’ll get to create your own custom page to share your passion, your goals, and journey with friends and family members! 

• Get Inspired:  Join Team BFB Champion Kelly Calway on Facebook where she will be sharing some of her mama mojo — motivational and nutrition tips with Team BFB.   https://www.facebook.com/groups/oplacfreedom/

• Raise. Each race has a minimum fundraising requirement to be determined by the Team Leader and Team BFB’s Director.  Funds support BFB, a national 501(c)(3) and the only independent mainstream cause for healthy infant feeding — the Mother of All Causes ;

• Race. Meet your personal goal and help other moms reach theirs!

• Receive your Team Best for Babes Racing Shirt Click here to view the current shirt (Option to purchase if funds do not meet minimum).

  For a list of frequently asked questions click here.

Where the Money Goes 

Your donations help us fund the fight for a booby-trap-free environment!  Best for Babes is the first mainstream nonprofit to take Breastfeeding to the level of a Cause to get moms and babies the help they deserve to succeed! Click Here to learn more about how your donations fund lasting change! 

What BFB Stands For

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! We believe that:

• Breastfeeding is a Team Sport – ALL 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 and legal 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.

(see our Credo for more)

For further inquiries, contact us @ team@bestforbabes.org