BabyZone.com

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BabyZone.com
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Type of site
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Owner The Walt Disney Company
URL BabyZone.com
Commercialyes; ad-supported
RegistrationRequired only on forums

BabyZone.com was a website for mothers and mothers-to-be. It offered information on the full pregnancy timeline, from "trying to conceive", through pregnancy, childbirth, and raising an infant. [1] [2]

BabyZone.com was owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company, specifically by the Disney Interactive Family business unit within Disney Interactive. [3] Other sites in the Disney Interactive Family group include Spoonful.com and Babble.com. [4]

Disney acquired BabyZone from Kaboose in April 2009. [5] [6]

Disney shut down BabyZone in 2014. [7]

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