Sentence:  The Natural Childbirth movement, a private organisation, was fiercely criticised by some obstetric specialists who were very scathing of natural childbirth techniques and put about a lot of medical <WSD>scaremongery</WSD> – for example, that a baby would be exsanguinated if it were placed on the mother's abdomen before the placenta had been delivered and before the umbilical cord was cut. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Alarming information that is exaggerated or untrue.