BabyCenterReviews 236

Sorry but that's what a lot of women at baby center are! I made an honest mistake when posting a comment and let's just say that if I were in the same room with these women I would've probably been physically attacked, all because my advice was not to their liking! After realizing I had posted on the wrong section I apologized for my mistake but only two ppl acknowledged it! Everyone else acted as if I committed murder! I was very disappointed thinking I found a great way to ask for advice, nope! I was wrong, and by seeing all of these posts I see I'm not alone.

I went to the community forum asking for advice on a marriage msg board. While I didnt expect everyone to agree with me, I was told my husband should leave me because I am a pain in the... I was told that my husband should choose his dog over me. I was told I should leave my marriage because I "knew what I got myself into". I honestly did not think I would subject myself to this cyber abuse and have never felt so low on my life. I expected varying opinions or advice, but not this. Yes, I may be overly sensitive but I spent the day shooken up and in tears. One of the first people to attack me was the girl who created the group. I am disgusted. Facebook is made for this garbage... not a community where women ask for advice on babies or marriages. Why have this website if you are subjecting people to cyber bullying? I thought your website was to inform. By doing nothing, you encourage disgusting behavior. This is coming from someone who believes strongly in free speech.

I was on it briefly and left. I was shocked at all the personal attacks that went on. They have very lax rules about it also. The mod mommytotwingirls is the worst, she often joins in on the bullying and looks for threads where trouble is brewing so she can stir up the pot. It's hard to believe she is actually a grown woman. Most (not all, but most) of these women are lower socioeconomic and use poor grammar, as well as tons of profanity to make someone think they are "tough girls". But at the same time, they are actually quite fragile themselves when criticized. They are gangs of women who have no real life friends, so they turned to the internet for so-called "friendships". There is also a lot of made up stuff on the boards, such as fake drama situations about abusive husbands that turn out not to be real.
Anyway, this is my opinion and my review!

The message boards needs to be shut down or strictly regulated. The women on the message boards are sick and crazy. I have seen bullying to the extreme on many of the message boards and nothing is done about it. It's so bad they need to consider shutting down all message board maybe even the site. There are no message boards on this website were the tone does not eventually turn hostile or violent. This is not a place for support.

I will start off by saying this app deserves zero stars. I have never in my life came across such horrible and childish behavior from adult women. The bullying is disgusting and it's everywhere. You see the same users leaving the same gross comments and typically it's those people that give the green light for others to behave poorly. If you dare express hurt on this app or claim someone was being rude or mean you'll have an army after you. They all defend their disgusting behavior by bringing up the "rules" of the message boards and since being "rude" is subjective and not a violation they will purposely wave that flag in your face while sticking their tongue out. I've seen people go out of their way to correct someone's grammar, people often criticize and shame a mother for wanting to name her child (blank), not to mention the incessant need to point out people's "problems" and how they absolutely need therapy or their life will be ruined. There could literally be a post about how a woman flicked a watermelon seed at her husband and about ten thousand ants come crawling in to tell them how abusive they are and that they need therapy. Honestly, I was so sick of seeing people get torn down and told that they need to seek mental help that I contacted BabyCenter and their response was laughable. Seeking therapy is personal and in many cases, very scary and embarrassing, so shaming someone to death and shoving the whole "YOU NEED THERAPY, YOU NEED HELP" really isn't helping anyone and most likely will scare that person away from the idea of professional help.

I just can't believe the childish behavior and this is coming from a 25 year old. BabyCenter really needs to change their rules and violations and absolutely needs to get rid of these so called "group owners" that are meant to monitor everything. The group owners are just as bad and more times than not are participants in the bullying act that is viciously present in the BabyCenter community. If anyone reading this agrees then I ask you to send BabyCenter an email and express how these message boards are negatively affecting you and hopefully we can make some change.

This app will give you the impression that they want the best for you and your baby, that they promote positivity and support but they couldn't care less. People need to be banned or it all needs to be shut down, people can lose their lives to harassment and bullying and yet they continue to defend their actions. Pathetic app, pathetic people.

I have been a member for 5 years. Amusing sometimes, entertaining. But this last week, I saw one of my friends there who everyone thinks is a sweetheart because of a loss she endured finally have the pleasure of seeing one of the nice posters make a mistake. She took pleasure at taking advantage of this and having others join in at shunning her because they are all followers. It was horrible because I know my friend does not like her for no reason whatsoever and my friends knows it. The girl that was attacked sent me a Target gift card for my birthday after she had won it and read about my horrible birthday I was having. Who does things like this these days? Someone kind, generous, and good. After 5 years I am happy to say I am not going back. I'm sure the girl that was attacked was loved by many and her downfall made me question why I spent 5 years of my life with people that would like to see me fall to get pleasure from it. It's really sad because I can't write this over there because my friend would know who I am so I just can't. I'm scared of the repercussions.

To anyone reading this, don't join. Don't waste your life their. Your family deserves your time more than these nasty narcissist girls. It's not worth it.

If I could give this zero stars I would. I, so glad I've found this forum and know that I'm not alone! Many many months ago I was completely ridiculed for my name choices in the "BABY NAMES" group. I was called so many names, looked so down upon, and told they weren't even real names/misspelled. I was so hurt. I just wanted help narrowing down names for my beautiful daughter. Instead, I was torn down through and through, made to believe I was such an outsider with horrendous taste.

Today I decided to do an expirement. I made a new account and created a post with similar names that I considered. As many of you can already guess, the same exact thing happened. I was told, and I quote, "Misspelled, horrendous, tacky, uneducated, trashy, no love on this board misspelling names, made up, aren't even names, young and uneducated, don't care about hurting your feelings, everyone will laugh at you behind your back, what the **** do those names say, is this a new language, should we react with emojis to help you better understand, butchered name, etc." after I stopped commenting back they, even as of right now, are still commenting making fun of my name choices. TERRIBLE BOARD

I was a member of the babycenter community for 6 years so I think I have enough experience with the forums to give an honest review.

These forums are a magnet for the most toxic, personality disordered women to come to lash out at internet strangers, verbally abuse, humiliate and bully others. They try to manipulate and control others with a distorted sense of entitlement since this is the internet - a common excuse given.

If you dare to disagree with their gang mentality, they will use sarcasm (verbal abuse hidden in a poor attempt at humor) and name calling to single you out and humiliate you. You will be so scared to post anything because they will turn on you in a single moment and you can be their next victim.

Empathy is a foreign concept since a narcissist cannot feel any. When you post a thread about a problem, instead of listening, they immediately jump into a compulsive rescuing behavior with unwanted advice giving. No one is looked at as an individual. You must take their unwanted advice and conform to their wishes of what a perfect person should do. Basically, they are the internet Hitler mom mob from hell.

There are a few useful groups where members attempt to post with kindness but those groups are not popular and not as active. After all, there isn't much chaos and drama on those boards, and do not satisfy their insatiable appetite for turmoil that feeds their inner emptiness.
They are so proud of the fact that they are manufacturers of chaos, they call themselves drama llamas.

In conclusion, if you are looking for an enlightened group of stable, peaceful women to accompany you on this adventure of motherhood, look elsewhere.

My son wasn't sitting up by 11 months yet. The mommy experts of this site seemed to think my child was severely delayed, that I should be greatly concered, and that he required immediate physical therapy and scrutiny. BS, he sat up two weeks later and started walking a month later.

He was born at the 5th percentile in height, full term. Well, once again the mommy geniuses informed me that he would likely grow to be a short man. BS, 2 years later, he's at the 85th percentile.

This site is full of idiot moms who lack any NATURAL motherly instinct. Don't come here seeking advice. They'll just dump all over you and inform you how much more advanced their children are than yours.

This is by far the most abusive group of people I've ever come across. The women and very few men who belong to this site are so rude that I wouldn't suggest that the devil go there for conversation or advice. It's like being back in high school but 100x worse! The cliques are ridiculous and if you aren't a part of them then they have a grand time insulting you over and over under the guise of "solid advice". The moderators are in on it too and use their small amount of power to insult your intelligence, cut and edit your comments to their liking, and close a discussion you started because it doesn't suit their interest. Graciaplena is the worst mod of all. She argues her point childishly and if she realizes that she's wrong and doesn't know what else to say she won't admit it like an adult but asks " what the f are you going on about?" it really seems as if these women enjoy spending their days tearing down and insulting other women. Sad!

I have brain damage and they put you down for misspelling something or if your grammar isn't so good. I also wanted to name a baby after my gran who died and they kept bulling me and saying it was a made up name. Well duh all names are made up any way. But I wasn't the one who made up the name it's been in existence for thousands of years. If you post a name in the top 1000 they say it's too popular and over used. If you post a name not in the top 1000 they say it's misspelled and made up. You can't win. They are all bullies and to the person saying we can just ignore them or stay away from the Internet well why should we let bullies and trolls take over the whole internet and not use it ourselves. The admins themselves have bullied me. All in all im horrified at my treatment and when your pregnant you don't need stress like that. I lost my other baby because of being stressed. Don't know how they can live with themselves after treating someone like that and I had an autistic meltdown because of it. Nasty old horrible people who failed in their application to be on the Jerry springer show so had to take it out on us.

The articles are good. The forums are brutal. Internet bullying at its finest. A bunch of hippie insecure mom's who berate you if you don't agree. Not a good place to go for support (which is what I was looking for). The group moderators are cliquey who spend way too much time on the site. These are not the kind of women who's opinions I value. Who's raising their kids anyways if they're online all day bullying other mom's?
Stay away.

I have been bullied, ridiculed and called a bad mom, I've had past post that I have posted be thrown in my face, they say babycenter is supposed to be a short group? I think not. The women on the site have cliques and they all tally up against you, Hippo through all your recent posts and throw them in your face, even when you have your post private many will search your name with the word post next to your name and have access to all your private information, reporting to the admin? Good try they throw you out before they throw the offenders out! Horrible horrible horrible community's! It's like these women sit on Babycenter Community all day and ridicule everyone! Who's watching there children? Honestly please get the trolls out of the group so it can be fun again!

Just cause it's the Internet and were not face to face they are so ugly and rude, I was browsing on there and they were ganging up on some girl that kept posting and changing her profile the poor girl was just trying to get second opinions about her pregnancy test and since they were all negative they were telling her she's never going to be pregnant, I also posted some of my favorite baby names and I got so many ugly comments saying they nominate me for worst baby names ever.

I actually love BBC. I primarily lurk but have posted a bunch of times in the past 2 years. You can get some really great advice there. And so what if some of the woman are cliquey or snarky? Who cares? Either ignore them or stand up for yourself. You are an adult - no one can bully you UNLESS YOU LET THEM! Some of the group owners are complete $#*!es who have an inflated sense of self importance. Don't vio or break BBC's rules and they can't do anything to you.

There are thousands of posters on there and I don't even know how many groups. If you don't like a certain group then don't join it. But seriously, grow up and pull up your big girl panties and stop whining about it. Alot of women (and men) use the forums for advice. And alot of trolls post fake threads to create drama - and people get invested in the threads and the posters only to find out it was all a lie. So who can blame some of the women for not believing every new account?

I often spend hours reading BBC - and I still manage to parent, too!