BabyCenterReviews 235

I think BabyCenter is a great resource for pregnant women.

However, if you suffer a pregnancy loss, it is a painful nightmare to unsubscribe. For weeks, customer service told me that they would make sure that I would be unsubscribed to their daily emails. However, I kept receiving them and it was a painful reminder every day in my inbox. After two weeks of this, someone in customer service finally gave me the directions to unsubscribe. Why I was not given these directions weeks earlier when I requested to be unsubscribed, I'll never know.

I posted on a abnormalities and scan for information nothing more. I got two nasty coments from opinionated rude women and then it was closed. Why? Because I asked about information about my appending 12 week scan as I was 40 and no idea what tests to expect as nobody had told me that was it!

The group info said nothing else other then information and advice about this and I presumed this group was the right one to go for for help how wrong I was

Nasty, rude $#*!es! God forbid I need real support I dread to think what comments I'd get. Never ever will I go in a forum for help and advice again. Trolls.com that's what babycentre are about.

Full of ignorant, unsupportive women who like to denigrate reading comprehension, spelling, grammar, and even intentions (I was a "white knight" or a "unicorn" for a woman who was being judged harshly and cruelly) when you stand up to their bullying. A cesspool of the worst tendencies of humanity. How can people be this cruel to vulnerable pregnant women (presumably in the same situation as they are)? It is truly disturbing to consider that the mean girls who hunt through the communities to attack users they don't like are going to be in charge of the care of children.

This site seriously needs to be shut down! Not only is it a haven for backstabbing, prostitution and lying but these women don't respect anybody. They really don't. They make fun of you if you do not follow them on their likes and dislikes especially on religion. You are not free to share anything that is not mainstream there. New topics that aren't offensive but simply just different from the drama and typical stuff are not welcomed there either. Not only that but this is truly a haven of cyberbullying if I've ever seen one. I was there since 2003 and I got banned from simply trying to have a little harmless fun and make some posts that would not be the typical downer, oh woe is me stuff. But nope they all banded together and got me banned. Fine, I can just go other places. I STRONGLY encourage people who want a friendly board to not go to this place. It's not safe, it's not friendly and they will take your pictures and distribute them to porn sites, ad sites and even will modify them to fit their needs. They are very negative women and you will feel depressed being there because of the amount of hate and lies they spread about members.

I joined babycenter as I am pregnant with my first child. I joined the October 15 message board, one for cloth diapering, and a couple more I can't remember. The women on this site are cruel and vindictive! If you don't have the same opinion as them, they follow you from message board to message board. One lady told me my child would be better off stillborn than have me as a mother. I reported it to the Group Owner and he said that it didn't constitute a personal attack. They refused to do anything about the other members. Don't come to this site, it isn't worth it. Try The Bump or some other site.

I have NEVER in my LIFE seen so many hateful, rude, egocentric women on one site. If you post something asking advice for ANY situation that seems out of the norm, they will bash you and continue to tell you how horrible and disgusting you are until you are literally brought to tears. I thought we all learned how not to cyber bully in elementary school? This is a good site for everything BUT the community, but because that is such a huge part of it, I am writing this. I wish i could give zero stars because the operators of the site really need to take care of this issue. Monitor the community and BAN women who are SPITEFUL and MEAN.

I'm so relieved to see that others found this site as unbelievably terrible as I did. I joined a birth club when I first conceived. Being my first I was super excited about becoming a mom. I live very far from my family and friends (in a different country) and thought the boards would give me that camaraderie with other ladies in the same stage of my life.

Boy was I wrong! I quit the group before my second trimester. I experienced less drama, rudeness, vindictiveness and cliques in high school. Yes, LESS. I would gladly relive high school before going back to that board. First time moms will ask a legit question and get hundreds of berating comments. The comments within the comments are horrendous. I have never cone across such awful people in my life before going on babycenter. The "group owners" who are there as mediators are just as bad if not worse and are oftentimes the instigators of the drama.
Baby center community boards should be shut down. The website itself has great articles and information, but these message boards are collections of some of the worst women I've ever encountered. Please stay away!

I was on baby center for my first child, joined towards the end of pregnancy, asked a question, and was bashed by women. Took it with a grain of salt and joined a new group for my new baby on the way. I only go on to see if I can be helpful. While trying to answer concerned mothers questions, all I see is rude, I immature, and just straight up mean comments. I thought it was a community to help support pregnant mothers, we all know it is not easy. But these women have nothing better to do with their lives than to judge and bash new moms who have no clue. I am sickened by these women's comments I don't think anyone, especially a new mom should be subject to these horrible, pethetic, immature, heartless $#*!es!

I left the babycenter community after 4 years. I was shocked at the horrible advice women in the boards were giving each other and reminded women to seek advice from a medical professional not a crunchy stay at home mom. We all have experiences but experiences are not medical advice. Anyways the boards are meant for trolls to downgrade you. I saw a women get bashed for questioning if she was having a miscarriage! She didn't know if her symptoms could mean it and was looking for other experiencing. Poor girl! If you want to troll the boards and don't care about hurting people then the boards are awesome! But I'm a regular mom and I care about people so it's not a place for normal, mature women like me which it looks like I'm not alone as I read the reviews.

The birth boards and community aspect of this site are horrible! The members remind me of high school days when the popular girls pick on everyone else, except they're protected behind their computers... so they are worse! The advise is so opinion based and not clinical, often times moms recommended going against what pediatricians recommend. I did not see much medical based support, just unkind, opinionated moms with too much time on their hands. Don't waste your time...