BabyCenter

Baby center needs to be shutdown. I just argued with so many mean nasty woman on this cite trying to let them know we as all mothers do not need to judge others in a negative manner for what they are going through in their lives and I heard it all, from my grammar, to my education, being illiterate, that I'm a new comer so I need to learn place, I'm a punk for trying to stop an arguement from occurring, I mean I heard it all in a matter of 5pgs worth of back and forth with certain group of nasty mean rude women. This is supposed to be about mothers supporting one another and some mothers, not all, are just bullies. And yes I had some negative things to say in reply to these woman, not that I wanted argue, but I had to put them in their place. SHUT THIS THING DOWN before someone gets pushed to far by these evil woman on here. Theres so much negativity and makes you become negative too.

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 love this site for charting, watching my babes grow, information and the search options. The forum however can be extremely cruel. I can't stand seeing women get slaughtered on here by miserable women even if i dont necessarily agree with the posters post. There is a difference between being honest and up front vs calling names, throwing out nasty memes and saying "they are going to beat their heads against the wall" because the poster is essentially an "idiot" in their mind. Not necessary and very childish. 90% of the time the post is looking for support and they get nothing of the sort when the attackers take over their threads and just dont stop. Making posters like me not even want to put my username on the board so they have another target. I saw it when i was on the site in 2018. Had my 1st, took a break and then now in 2020. Nothing has changed in the mean girls department. Ive joined for a few months and already can recognize 3 members who tag team against other posters. Really wish moderators would step up their game and remove such posters or atleast the attacking posts. You can share your point of view without degrading another human being. I guess its easy to take your everyday anger out on a stranger behind a screen though. With all that said if your new, tread lightly and dont fall into the bate and traps ive seen. There are no repercussions like facebook groups and its not worth your time with people who love to stir the pot. Opens the door for their cruel intentions they seem to have had all along.

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.

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 fell in love with this app immediately. Loved getting the reminders about my baby, browsing through interesting article finds and finding out how well my little one is developing. Found out in my 7th month there was a huge community forum you can post questions and responses with other real women. Thought this was great! At once I put up a post about an issue I was experiencing with an in law, in an effort to find some helpful advice or find someone in my shoes. Well, a few minutes right after I put it up I found out brutally that I had posted in the wrong group apparently. This group was for marriage and family and what I needed was the Dealing with in laws. The women were so horrible and rude to me. Shockingly, a "group owner" was the first in line. I was close to tears after hearing things like "Get over it" and "this is your problem" and "you're just being really ungrateful" and "this does not belong here. Go where there are other women like you." Another woman really said that if I did post in the group I was suppose to they'll just tell me how ungrateful and petty I am. I was so upset! The issue was my mother in law won't stop buying my baby everything. I don't want or need to be provided for. Just was looking for nice ways or suggestions to tell her to stop, that it's too much what she was doing and THEY ATE ME ALIVE. I'm still reeling from it. Terrible, terrible women!

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.

I'm going anonymous on here, just in case. I posted on a board (can't remember which one) asking for advice and guidance on if I did the right thing by cutting MY mother and family out of my life for the sake of my daughter's and amongst some of the supportive kind answers, I got told to leave my boyfriend because he seemed "shady" my boyfriend was scared for his daughter's life! Of course he'd want to be in good graces with my family, he didn't want them to hurt her. On the baby name board is another board I strongly dislike, what kind of person tells a mom to be that she shouldn't let her significant other to be a part of the naming process just because of what his first daughter's name is? The site just isn't friendly to newcomers nor are they friendly to people who have a different naming style other than theirs. They'll bully you until either a. You change the name you love or b. You ask for your account to be deleted. Don't even bother reporting something, because you'll get told off by the board leaders and get a "warning" (next "offense" is deletion of your account)

The actual app is amazing. I loved reading about my son every step of the way until birth. But beware the forums. Unless you are one of those moms that have a perfect white picket fence lifestyle, with a million square feet nursery with all the trimmings, hate your husband to bits and don't mind talking absolute **** about him online instead of talking it out, and love to see new moms cry the forums aren't for you. Don't ever ask for advice. You will get attacked instead. These women come in packs. PACKS I TELL YOU. It didn't just happen to me, it happens to so many new parents on there. It's crazy. God forbid you talk about how well your child is doing either, because you will get ridiculed. The other week, I read a new mom talk about how her child was advancing so fast. She was getting torn to shreds in the comments. People telling her that she's selfish for boasting, or how she was lying or whatever. It's like you got thrown into the gulag with no weapons anywhere and you are against 40 evil Karen clones. If you try to defend yourself or explain something, you will then be met with another 80 goblin henchmen ready to back up their frontline attack force. Then, when you've had enough, you try to delete your postbut what's this? You aren't allowed to.

Amazing resources, love the weekly updates that we get on the growth of baby. The app is super user friendly too!

I concur with previous reviewers, BBC is the WORST website community I have ever been a part of. I'm almost embarrassed I kept up with it for so long (5 months). I went there as a first time Mom looking for support and advice, and ended up being maliciously attacked and criticized by numerous people, including Group Owners! You will know who the attackers are right away, as they seemingly never leave their computers, and are quick to leave nasty comments on every post. Then, they gang up on you with each other and turn it into a high school drama similar to Mean Girls. It's terrible! I let the internet get to me, and I got very upset and stressed out on numerous occasions WHILE PREGNANT because of this site. This is the least supportive place for a pregnant women, and I highly suggest NO ONE visit this site. It's not good for your growing baby. This website should be banned and/or monitored more closely by the true owners of BBC. I will never visit the website again. I've joined What to Expect, and the community there is SO much more supportive.