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BabyCenter Reviews Summary

BabyCenter has a rating of 1.8 stars from 221 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with BabyCenter most frequently mention group owners, bargain hunters and high school. BabyCenter ranks 94th among Parenting sites.

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Texas
2 reviews
23 helpful votes
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Despite baby center's "rules" against harassment and bullying, the community moderators let it happen anyway. I emailed them twice and sent private messages regarding harassment issues from several posters (and privacy concerns as people were googling me). I had posters following me onto different boards and creating drama and harassing and bullying me. Baby center never responded back ti ANY of my emails or messages. Glad you take cyber bullying seriously babycenter...

Date of experience: February 16, 2016
Arkansas
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Horrible
January 25, 2016

Talk about cyber bullying. I asked a question and they made me feel like I didn't deserve this child and that I am going to be a horrible mother.

Date of experience: January 25, 2016
Oregon
1 review
12 helpful votes
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The information regarding the milestones of baby in the womb are great but you can get the same from other apps like "what to expect" but when it comes to the boards?! OMG stay clear! It's full of ignorant immature girls that clearly have nothing better to do than talk down to others and start drama! It's like high school all over again! Stay away it's not worth the added stress and negative energy it leaves u with.

Date of experience: January 21, 2016
Minnesota
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Evil, Bullying Women
January 11, 2016

They bullying other women and said i was lying about being pregnant! How dare they?! Don't go the site unless you like to get ridiculed and picked on. Why would i lie about my pregnancy?! Who dies that?! If i could give this site a 0 i $#*!ing would

Date of experience: January 11, 2016
North Carolina
1 review
25 helpful votes
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If i could give zero stars, i would. Every bad review makes PERFECT sense. I am another one of many who have left the site with utter disgust. This is no place for decent expectant mothers with any self respect. This unhealthy site is infested with trolling, bullying, and biased moderation. Horrible, shameful hormone-raging women who hide behind anonymity and attack people who post there in need of various kinds of support.

If you dont share the majorities opinions, WATCH OUT! You will be roasted over an open fire. And dont dare attempt to defend yourself when you are targeted by these extremely bored housewives. There are a rare few there who are actually trying to offer support and friendliness, but the crazed hens there by far outnumber the good ladies who shouldnt even be mixed up in that horrible mess anyway.

If you are attacked/harassed on the site by anyone, which is against their "rules", dont expect moderators to handle the situation appropriately. If you defended yourself, YOU will be penalized for your reply while the person or people who attacked you in the first place are left to continue attacking others in the forums. In addition, they seem very used to having unhappy/dissatisfied members cancel their accounts, and they apparently could care less as to why they lose such a large amount of people. As long as no one in charge cleans that place up and learns how to properly handle bullying situations, that site will continue to be the toilet bowl of the internet.

Date of experience: December 30, 2015
Washington
1 review
14 helpful votes
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This site creates and encourage a hostile environment not good for mothers. I would also highly suggest never placing your or your child's photos as they have a track record of keeping them locked on the site. Even after talking to staff. It is really one of the worst places online any of the other Mom sites are better. Sorry for everyone's terrible experiences.

Date of experience: December 22, 2015
Massachusetts
1 review
21 helpful votes
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The worst website I have ever visited! Does not even deserve one star. Worthy of adding a negative star rating. I can't even believe how rude, cruel, and vicious the "community" members are. I have honestly never seen anything like it my life and I have lived quite a life so far. BBC is nothing but a gang of angry thugs and bullies awaiting their next victim. It is completely ridiculous. Time to boycott Johnson & Johnson until they shut this monster down. I've met nicer people at Sturgis (The motorcycle rally)!

Date of experience: December 4, 2015
Illinois
1 review
18 helpful votes
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TERRIBLE & STRESSFUL
December 2, 2015

The company BABYCENTER, has a community board where women can ask questions. They are rude, judgmental, ignorant, and very disrespectful and love drama. Did I mention these women cyber bully?

Date of experience: December 2, 2015
New Jersey
1 review
17 helpful votes
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Full of rude women
November 5, 2015

I rarely posted as I didn't want to get attacked. How is that supportive? I did try to start posting with things I thought were very harmless and in no way could drum up rude comments and lo and behold, they found a way. I really need to keep my pregnancy stress free and realized today that this place is just too negative and full of drama and I will be removing my account there today. I would recommend finding another site that actually has supportive women and not bored, catty, bullies!

Date of experience: November 5, 2015
Arizona
3 reviews
36 helpful votes
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Awful.
October 30, 2015

Great site if you'd like general information on pregnancy through helpful articles. Terrible place to get support. I'm truly saddened by the treatment most members have toward new mothers seeking advice. Very disrespectful and insensitive women on the family boards. My sympathy goes out to all of the woman who have been bullied, judged, and mistreated on that site. Baby Center does nothing to moderate or stop it which is incredibly unprofessional.

Date of experience: October 30, 2015
California
1 review
19 helpful votes
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Do you enjoy having 200+ comments from women from the middle of Butt$#*!, Nowhere tell you that the current scientific and medical research is invalid because they [insert dumbass action] all the time and their kids are perfectly healthy? Do you like being cyber bullied because a bunch of spiteful, bored women don't want to interact with their toddlers? Then you've found your place! This hellhole is for the lowest of the low-hanging fruit. No wonder their husbands don't want to spend time with them.

Date of experience: October 26, 2015
Ohio
3 reviews
12 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: October 25, 2015
Georgia
1 review
8 helpful votes
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A COMPLETE Bummer
October 20, 2015

The women on these sites are ridiculous. Just flat out ridiculous. Mean, judgemental, and odd. Why odd? Because I find it extremely odd to set up forums with rules and regs to keep you from telling the truth, because you might "hurt someones feelings." And if you BARELY touch one of these odd rules, they will let you have it. Ruthlessly. What a joke.

Date of experience: October 20, 2015
GB
1 review
17 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: October 16, 2015
Illinois
1 review
16 helpful votes
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Total waste of time.
October 8, 2015

I wouldn't recommend this to ANYONE. The women are total $#*!es and I just said screw it because I was bullied. All I said was " if I get pregnant its meant to be if not then it's not" and I got knocked down for a saying that because I wouldn't be a good mom for saying that. I said screw it.
They act like they are better than anyone and they "KNOW" everything.

Date of experience: October 8, 2015
Illinois
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Crazy "perfect" mothers.
September 11, 2015

This site is for any mom who thinks they're perfect. Seriously had it for two weeks and got shot down left and right. All I wanted was a little advice and I left feeling depressed. These ladies all think they have every answer when in reality, they have no clue. Being a perfect mom is not sitting online all day bashing women who come for help. There are a few decent ones on there, but the crazies really stand out.

Date of experience: September 11, 2015
Florida
1 review
23 helpful votes
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HORRIBLE
August 16, 2015

More bullying than I ever experienced in school. Mean women in weird cliques that swarm on people like roaches. Horrible experience.

Date of experience: August 16, 2015
Mississippi
1 review
14 helpful votes
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If your having twins (or just a single baby) do not join this site if you already have a name picked out and are dead set on it, because if you do the women on there will continuously bully you and try to get you to change the name of YOUR baby (even if it's a legit name) If you aren't naming your baby 'Charlotte, Margot" or any other name to that standard you will get bullied. I do not recommend this site to anyone

Date of experience: July 31, 2015
California
1 review
19 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: July 31, 2015
Washington
1 review
14 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: June 28, 2015