BabyCenterReviews 235

Ive used this site twice since November 2017 and Im surprised a class action lawsuit hasnt been filed yet against the site. I mean if FB can get sued by its user Im almost certain this site can too. Especially since it does the exact opposite for whybit was created. It has guidelines and rules it doesnt follow and it seems like this cyber abuse is condone by the way the complaint emails are handled. We all need to look into this.

I've been on babycenter for 6 months now and will never be back on. Never once have I made a post that has gotten any feedback but bullying. Even asking is a certain symptom is nornal will get you bullied. Don't ever try to go on other boards. Most of the time the community is horrible because it the group owners and moderators. They are the ones creating cliques and doing most of the cyber bullying. If the people in charge get an ego trip making fun of people, how will the website get any better?

All the one star reviews are accurate. Don't use the birth boards if you have questions and need support during pregnancy. The women love to make fun of people and make them feel bad for asking innocent questions. They smugly pat themselves on the back for being able to "tell it like it is," when in reality they just think it's fun to make people feel stupid. The mods are worthless. They are usually the biggest drama queens of all and love to sit back and laugh as they watch their favorite "mean girls" make fun of people. I was done with the site when I read one thread of these idiots making fun of a pregnant woman on bed rest with a brain bleed. They told her she was just looking for sympathy and only kicked their insults up a notch after the woman said their comments had driven her to tears. Also, don't even bother trying to join in if you don't toe the line as a liberal, pro-abortion feminist who thinks every marriage problem should be solved by leaving your husband.

I'm giving two stars just because I sometimes read the hydrocephalus board and the women there are actually nice and the mod is really great! It's a smaller group though and is definitely not the norm on this site!

Pretty much all of the 1 star reviews are accurate. This is not a good place to look for support or answers. If you post a question, expect to be ridiculed. If you post an answer to a question, expect the same or possibly worse. I have never experienced cyber bullying until I came on this site looking for support. There are boards such as bargain hunters and debate team, which they claim they are not a birth board but they forget they are under the website "babycenter" not B! T@h center. I actually highly doubt many of these "women" are even mothers. In my opinion misery loves company and if you go out of your way to be hurtful towards someone that just shows what an unhappy person you are. It doesn't take much courage to be mean to a stranger on the internet so I would love to know how these people truly are when they aren't hiding behind a computer screen.
With that being said, I wish I knew of a real mother's group where people could go for real support where the content is regulated. This website is just a lawsuit or suicide waiting to happen (if it hasn't already).

I pride myself on litterally TRYING to be a good person. When a question was asked I GENUINELY answered as if it were me. My last comment was simply about how we should be nicer to each other as I was previously told I didnt know what I was talking about by a "nurse". Everyone there was pregnant or trying to conceive. I received a 12 page thread of i think 150 comments stating that I am weak, made of snowflakes, and that I must have been one of the stupid girls that thought gas bubbles was my fetus moving. They are disgusting vile women who are miserable trolls. They are everything that is wrong in the world meanwhile they are raising children... and teaching them what? I had hoped for a nice response but instead they tried to corner me into idk what. What was their point? They talked about my fetus? And after they locked the thread i noticed about 50 ladies liked my comment but no one spoke up. I guess they already knew how it would end. All in all I told myself, self you are currently in the hospital for dehydration and colitis, being right is not that important. I asked to delete my acct. I'm still waiting. I thought it was a support group. I wish all these ladies and I could start a nice lady baby forum. If you want a calm, peaceful pregnancy start by STAYING AWAY FROM THIS PLACE then have a piece of carrot cake.

I got a Babycenter account when I was pregnant and had a lot of questions. Very quickly I realized though that what happens there is that the admins and friends of theirs are basically there to act out their frustrations with their sad lives on others by responding cruelly and harshly to even the most innocent questions. I was told I was a piece of crap parent and one member even messaged me saying she hoped my baby died -- because I asked if people put seasoning in their homemade baby food. NO JOKE. When I reported this psycho who wished death on my baby, I went to sign in later only to find that my account had been inactivated due to "suspicion of being a second account"... It was not -- however, great nebulous reason to use so that I can't really fight back. Not much of a loss but that should tell you how these creeps operate.

This website is the worst! They have "Debate club" where bunch of regulars post and use direct insults or passive aggressive tone to berate others. The moderators don't respond to reports of those comments because the regulars post them and plus moderators enjoy bullying. It is sad. Don't even join this community, the group owners have zero regards to human decency - they will trash you and tell you that you are in the wrong. They are some miserable people. Only losers with no friends spend so much time arguing with strangers, they hate theirs lives and take it out on innocent newcomers. It is sad that "grown" women express such immature and un-motherly behavior. I am scared what they teach their kids, who will mostly likely end up in prisons. The cyber bullying like it happens there is illegal and I am surprised how that website is still running!

I wouldn't be surprised if there were suicides attributed to the groups on this website. I'm shocked every year at the bullying and brutality of the posters on these sites. I saw a post where someone told the OP to just go basically kill herself already and the group owner did nothing but basically cheer the crowd on.

It's great entertainment though but I would never post on this site because of how abhorrid the people who sit behind their computer all day making sly remarks are.

Speaking mainly of the forums here: the type of advice they give members with respect to relationships usually follows this trend: don't have any more children, put your babies in daycare, leave your husband (not necessarily in that order). For being a site about babies, BBC is surprisingly anti-family. It's the radical feminist undercurrent that's causing this, as this is how most of the moderators and group owners are. They are creating the flavor of the website, and these views are IMO not representative of the mainstream public's views. Many of the mods and GOs are in therapy for psychological or personality issues, with some openly admitting it in posts and some not.

Outside the forums, the site itself can be helpful, though there's been some very envelope-pushing articles the site has published.

BBC is owned by Johnson & Johnson. I think this parent company is either asleep at the wheel, or happy with the ultra liberal influence their members are having on new moms.

I also agree with others' posts about the cliquey-ness. If you come out with something politically contrary to their views, they'll come after you like a hive of angry hornets. Haha.

I feel like this site is full of a group of old hags who was to belittle you. Not worth the time, it's actually quit sad the way they treat people. If you simply don't know what they're talking about, they seriously belittle you like you're stupid. They have acronyms for stupid things like DH which means dear husband or DTD which means sex. Because they're so into feeling like they belong to a group in this world when really they're just on their phones or computers bullying you. If I could rate the site less than a 1 star I would.

I use to just use babycenter to check milestones and read articles but then I decided j wanted to get involved maybe comment on posts make some mom friends... well BIG MISTAKE. I repeatedly got bullied and harassed for my opinion. These moms are ruthless rude women who either like being bullies or have nothing better to do in life. It was really disappointing meeting so many hateful people on a site I thought I could enjoy. I will stick to reading articles and checking milestones for now on.

There are some sweet and amazing people. Have a day where you feel the need to express guilty hormonal feelings... the wolves will descend. If you value your mental health, stay away. It's full of awful cyber bullying. Women clearly have nothing better to do than insult others... calling them nasty and horroble people. Heaven forbid you apologize for coming across as mean. They cut into you worse. While they tell you how horrible you are, they are 100× worse. Just don't bother.

I have to agree with most of the reviews here. I've been on there for a few years. There's some good advice and nice people but honestly that's the minority. I searched site jabber on babycenter to see if the members were aware of the horrible reviews and well, they laughed. That's about what I expected. They also thought women came here to this site to specially bash Babycenter even though this is a website for reviewing lots of things.

I have to say some of the drama is entertaining. When I get tired of it I just take a break. There is a lot of what I would call bullying there but there are also people who are super soft and can't take advice if they don't like it, so it goes both ways. I don't see why people get so upset about it to be honest. Anyone is free to leave if they don't like it. Drama is my guilty pleasure so I probably won't be leaving anytime soon.

The other one star reviews are 100 percent right. This website is chock full of cyberbullies and trolls. A lot of the language and discussions are x-rated, beyond gross and not appropriate for a parenting site. A few years ago, I asked for advice on how to handle a delicate situation and was told I was a bad mother, a complete moron, and that I should commit suicide--and those were some of the tamer comments. I read all of this while I was pregnant and suffering from postpartum depression. Even after I left this particular group, the members followed me around the website and continued harassing me. I reported the offenders and Babycenter did absolutely nothing about it. I ended up deleting my account and haven't been back there since. Obviously, things haven't approved and sound like they may have gotten worse. It has some articles but most of them weren't very useful to me and a lot of them were very old and outdated. There are much better parenting websites out there, trust me. It's not worth the anguish to post on Babycenter. I pity these so-called adults who get off on attacking people for no reason and I feel especially sorry for the children of these people. If they treat a stranger horribly for asking a harmless question, imagine how they deal with their kids! I'm so relieved I'm not alone in having experienced this. I definitely feel for the other one star reviews and I'm very sorry you had to go through a similar experience.

For anyone even considering joining this site, please don't. Besides being a haven for trolls, the boards are full of bad and even dangerous advice. There's no use wasting your energy and health on this useless website. They definitely hurt me in a very vulnerable time in my life and I'd hate to see it happen to another person.