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I just wanted to add that with Munchausens the mom's are only abusing these kids medically but almost always it is physical as well. I was often beaten and unable to go to school because of this and I remember Heather also saying that her mom would 'spank' her for no reason.

These mom's are so adept at lying and hiding the truth that they are able to hide and or manipulate anything and everything to their favour. My entire school life teachers would ask questions and sometimes I would lie but even when I did get the gall to tell the truth of what was happening they would go straight back to my mom and tell her what I had said which just cemented the fact that she had all the power and that I had no one to help or protect me. My mom had lied to everyone around her lawyers ministers teachers friends and even family still to this day believe that I am what my mom has said I am.  I finally found my dad a few years ago and as I thought she had been lying to me every day of my whole life about him too. I think the biggest problem is that the Munchausens sufferer doesnt believe they are lying - the truly believe what they are saying!! The Munchausens mom is abusive to a child in her care in every way known to man - emotionally, physically, mentally, medically and so many more.

I have seen the question asked as to why she (Tracy) would hide pregnancy and have home births when she could get so much attention from it - It is becuase it is not about attention as much as it is about the power. The power they have as a mother it makes them feel so powerful to know that they are the one thing keeping the child alive and that the Dr's will believe ANYTHING they (Munchausens mom) say, I believe Tracy did what she did because SHE COULD! My mom was very much the same - she would always test things and she more often than not found she could get away with anything so would try the next level and the next and so on and so on. Munchausens isnt just about taking the child to the Dr's or the attention, it is about power, it is about THEIR MIND! it is about A LOT OF SELF PITY!!!!! Poor me - I have a sick child, Poor me - look how much I do for my child - Poor me - NO ONE HELPS ME Poor me - WITHOUT ME YOU WOULD HAVE NO ONE Poor me - NO ONE ELSE WANTS YOU Poor me look I took care of a child that no one else would and look what happened to me - Prison has just played right into that mind set for Tracy, as far as the Munchausens mom goes everything in the whole world is about them they honestly dont know that it isnt! They need to feel important and the most powerful the one and only.