BabyCenterReviews 221

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.

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