For those who aren’t familiar with the term, it means believing something that probably shouldn’t be believed, or being influenced to believe something that’s not necessarily in your best interests.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Oh, I’m not entirely versed in child-bearing, but they claimed doctors didn’t give women the option of giving birth in any other position than lying on their backs, but now I know this is false. You can request to give birth in any position that feels more comfortable.

      Another was that giving an epidural would create a cascading effect of needing another drug to cover the side-effects, and then needing another to cover those side-effects as well, and so on just to tack on the bill. Of course, that’s not how it works.