BabyCenterReviews 235

The women on babycenter often censor any Christian posts. The website is very christophobic and targets posters that have faith. They often bully people and have cliques like I haven't witnessed since 6th grade. Very toxic and disappointing site.

I was a new mom when I joined babycenter. I was young and looking for advice from other moms. Instead of helping me, they bullied me about my age and took pride in it.

As others have said the forums are a breeding ground for mean girl mob mentality. If you try to speak up and ask why there is so much negativity you are deemed a coddler and snowflake and then gaslit by Group owners saying there's no negativity, as they laugh react to the negative posts. Was literally told I'm a "spectacular failure" for saying we should be trying to build each other up and be supportive. They validate themselves as trolls by saying it should just be expected because it's the internet. Tried to leave a review on the App Store but for some reason isn't showing up.

The group owners, moderators are so awful. Not a single one of them actually offer support. They just repeat the same phrases over and over again. They're also very mean and judging to a lot of innocent women on there. Especially if they have a different opinion. I have been on there for a couple years but had a horrible experience today with a Group Owner. It isn't the first time either so I'm just done with the whole site.

I'm so shocked this place still exists. It was bad years ago, but it's way worse now. It's worse than FB, IG and Twitter put together! The "community" forums are full of pretentious, racist, white Karens who think they rule the entire site/world. It's just not a good place for anyone, let alone pregnant women. I was just part of a birth board and you get the same handful of people, including the GOs, thinking they know everything babies and attempting to beat people over the head about their opinions/choices for their kids/families. I wouldn't encourage any mom, definitely not a first-timer, to frequent the site. It's DEFINITELY past its prime and needs to be shut down.

Like so many others, I had an awful experience on Babycenter, particularly on the Bargain Hunters Board. I had a question about my daughter and I don't have many mom friends. Posters came out in droves to cut me down and insult me. They said my daughter "deserved" to be kicked by a classmate (she is 5), she needs special education services, she probably has a disability, I am an inadequate parent, I failed my kid,…I could go on and on. All based on one incident I posted about and asked for advice. I am fine with advice and constructive criticism- that is not what this was.

I reported the incident to the moderators and nothing was done. I also noticed that the mods are quite friendly with many of the posters that bully others. There are many posters there who never seek advice themselves. They are always giving advice - typically in a condescending manner.

I felt terrible for quite awhile after the incident. I was truly only looking for support from other mothers.

The Debate Team and Bargain Hunters Board seem to be full of "friends" who all agree with one another. If anyone posts another perspective then all hell breaks loose. Suddenly the post is filled with supporters who will trash a poster. The Debate Team doesn't actually debate, it should be named Opinion Team. If a poster does post a great rebuttal then it gets ignored.

Same experience as everyone else, you will get bullied relentlessly and babycenter GOs and Mods are either bullies themselves, or possibly just too scared of the bullies to stop them? It's hard to say, but my life has been much happier since I stopped going there. Save yourself some unnecessary stress and stay far away!

All of the other message boards are cool accept for the Bargain Hunters board, the women who reply to your post are bullies and the owners continue to let them bully you. Even after you request to delete your profile the owners will block you out but leave your question up on the board for the women to still comment on it and continue to bully you.
When you ask a question that's when the name calling begans and the doubtful comments start. I asked a question about a job interview and nearly 10 people started attacking me saying that I imagined the whole job interview, the interviewer never existed and that I'll never get a job because of my last posting about having trouble finding a job. Honestly it reminds me of Cafe Mom, there was so much bullying and back and forth bickering on that board that the board eventually shut down. I was glad about it because it started to become dangerous to where the people on there would track down your ip address and threaten to come to your house. It's ridiculous.

Just a bunch of sad, angry women bickering over nonsense. No real support. Try a different app that is better moderated and addresses harassment.

I have sporadically participated in the BBC community for years. I knew what it was but I wanted to be an occasional voice of reason. I quickly learned to avoid the Birth Boards at all costs. I saw enough on most of the relationship boards that I mostly didn't comment, but would read along if I needed a drama fix, and very occupy comment that the OP didn't need to follow terrible advice just because it was being shouted at them. I would also very occasionally start a thread, or comment if it was not likely to blow up, for fun but I mostly knew how to avoid attracting the negative attention of the "GO's" and the bully pile-ons that happen way too often, especially in the bigger groups. It's true, the bullying was pretty blatant but I was mostly (not entirely) able to avoid being targeted by it. I did have several posters tell me I needed to leave my husband because he wouldn't agree to adopt a rescue animal that was in danger of being put down. I repeat they wanted me to choose a pet over my marriage!

I finally left when one of the clicks decided to attack anyone NOT participating in their "Revolution" or more accurately their decision to hijack one of the bigger groups over frustration with the fact that it wasn't their preferred flavor of echo chamber. They decided that anyone not actively participating in it didn't have any business participating anywhere else in the entire community either. They had already been following and attacking posters who had called them out on their double standards and harassed them until they eventually went silent. But apparently their blood-thirst wasn't fully sated yet so they took to attacking posters who were simply staying out of it. Since I do not ever participate in online debates of any kind, because it's pointless, I was avoiding the whole scene. They eventually came after me and several others when we inadvertently continued to comment on a different non related thread that they had deemed "a distraction from the real issue." I had no idea their "revolution" had reached that level of fury or that the thread I was participating in was being watched because I wasn't interested in watching a bunch of angry strangers argue past one another.

Anyway, I was summarily informed that failing to participate in the massive pile on bullying they were engaged in made me a racist. When I pointed out that refusing to participate in an online debate in a anonymous forum doesn't mean I'm not advocating for the issue of racism in my real life, and attacking me based on ASSUMPTIONS was hypocritical, I had something like 16 posters I'd never even seen before rush over to inform me how very racist I was for being part of the "deafening silence," oh and "anonymous Internet forums totally are the real life." So obviously I'm lying about advocating elsewhere anyway.

Wow I am so glad I found out these reviews, confirming I was not crazy, that place is very nasty and needs some legal steps to be taken. That community is a definitive cyber bullying place and that has to be taken down. I recognized someone also posted here a screenshot of the same woman that I saw bullying others, her name on the board is LaurieBugg, along with admins and others giving such insults for no reasons these people are so miserable and probably have no job or life at all, this is what they do, sit behind screen enjoying hurting innocent people. There must be a way to get IP addresses and take some legal actions and find these people, cyber bullying should not be allowed.

It's social media, so people feel brave behind their keyboards to bully people. The bargain hunters group is especially trash. Some ladies are super sweet and supportive but there is a troupe of outright NASTY and classless bullies! They have nothing better to do than tear others down if you arent super woke like them. God forbid you have your own set of thoughts and feelings that doesnt align with their fake values. Babycenter itself is informative and their emails help learn about your child's development, but dont bother interacting on the boards. These are some of the rudest and nastiest people I have encountered. They will follow you for years after you say something they dont like and will continue to gang up and attack you for it. Not adult behavior sad these ladies dont have fulfilling lives so they have to hurt others online instead.

The actual app is amazing. I loved reading about my son every step of the way until birth. But beware the forums. Unless you are one of those moms that have a perfect white picket fence lifestyle, with a million square feet nursery with all the trimmings, hate your husband to bits and don't mind talking absolute **** about him online instead of talking it out, and love to see new moms cry the forums aren't for you. Don't ever ask for advice. You will get attacked instead. These women come in packs. PACKS I TELL YOU. It didn't just happen to me, it happens to so many new parents on there. It's crazy. God forbid you talk about how well your child is doing either, because you will get ridiculed. The other week, I read a new mom talk about how her child was advancing so fast. She was getting torn to shreds in the comments. People telling her that she's selfish for boasting, or how she was lying or whatever. It's like you got thrown into the gulag with no weapons anywhere and you are against 40 evil Karen clones. If you try to defend yourself or explain something, you will then be met with another 80 goblin henchmen ready to back up their frontline attack force. Then, when you've had enough, you try to delete your postbut what's this? You aren't allowed to.

I love this site for charting, watching my babes grow, information and the search options. The forum however can be extremely cruel. I can't stand seeing women get slaughtered on here by miserable women even if i dont necessarily agree with the posters post. There is a difference between being honest and up front vs calling names, throwing out nasty memes and saying "they are going to beat their heads against the wall" because the poster is essentially an "idiot" in their mind. Not necessary and very childish. 90% of the time the post is looking for support and they get nothing of the sort when the attackers take over their threads and just dont stop. Making posters like me not even want to put my username on the board so they have another target. I saw it when i was on the site in 2018. Had my 1st, took a break and then now in 2020. Nothing has changed in the mean girls department. Ive joined for a few months and already can recognize 3 members who tag team against other posters. Really wish moderators would step up their game and remove such posters or atleast the attacking posts. You can share your point of view without degrading another human being. I guess its easy to take your everyday anger out on a stranger behind a screen though. With all that said if your new, tread lightly and dont fall into the bate and traps ive seen. There are no repercussions like facebook groups and its not worth your time with people who love to stir the pot. Opens the door for their cruel intentions they seem to have had all along.

My account has been disabled and BabyCenter has BANNED me from there site for absolutely no reason I was accused of being a KKK member Something needs to be done about and to BabyCenter because the site is completely out of control and deserves to be shut down and the Staff needs to be fired GO's need to be replaced with honest ones BabyCenter is owned by Johnson &Johnson's bullies mean nasty racist women are all over BabyCenter Stay away from BabyCenter at all costs