Topic : 10/11 Munchausen Mom

I agree with you. The supreme court has the authority to have this woman sterlized. She has a severe

problem and her children had to suffer due to this. There is no amount of therapy that would help Tracy because she wont admit to herself that was she did was wrong. I believe that the doctor and everyone involved should do what ever is necessary to prevent Tracy from having anymore children and her existing children need to go into therapy so they can begin to heal. Children do nothing so bad that they deserved to be abused or mistreated by any means.

I have an ex sister in law who has munchausen by proxy.  I have seen her fabricate and exaggerate illnesses with her three children, over medicate and have them hospitalized, ingratiate herself with health care professionals etc.  The list is so numerous it can't be listed here. 

   One time a niece supposedly fell and had a concussion. My niece later told me that her mother tripped her causing her to fall and hit her head on the sink.  My niece was supposed to wear a protective helmet after the fall.  Mom made her wear it to school but not at home.  Another time mom told the school that one of the children had been beated.  Unbeknownst to mom, the school had CPS come check the child and there was no bruising.  The next day mom shows up at school with photos of the alleged bruising.  CPS was called again by the school and there was no bruising.  They questioned the child and the child said that mom was painting smiley faces on her buttocks and pointed to the makeup accidentally left in the picture.  I have seen her grab the children, point and poke at their eyes, pull their eyelashes and when their eyes turn red show the girls how red their eyes are, tell them they have pink eye, put vaseline in their eyes and make them take breathing treatments.  They have been treated for false mental disorders, ADHD, breathing difficulty, strep throat, ear infections, one time mom said the kids had SARS!  The most recent problem is treating one of her children with Depakote 500 mg for supposed difficulty sleeping.  When the children are not with her there are no signs of health problems.  I've reported these things to Protective services, the courts and they started to look at the possibility and then  mom had a Dr. write a note saying that she saw no signs of munchausen. Officials did not pursue it any further. 

   I understand that it is much more tedious and involved to make a determination of this type.  No one has reviewed all past medical records looking for inconsistencies, lies and falsehoods.  I am worried about the children who have been medicated for their entire lives and have been told they are sick, have been placed in psychiatric hospitals...all the mom has to do is tell the medical professionals that the children have x x x x symptoms and the doctor naturally believes the mother.  I wish I could get real help for these children to protect them from their mother.  I am at a loss...Does anyone have any suggestions?

I only heard about MSBP a few years ago when I saw a television program about it. I wish I would have know about it sooner, because I'm a nurse by profession ( not working as one now, I'm a full time SAHM) and I clearly remember a mother of 2 little boys that used to come in a doctor's office I worked at about 12 years ago. She was CONSTANTLY bringing them in the office for every little thing, always wanted antibiotics prescribed for them, no matter what. I remember her calling the office once and saying how one of them had a cough and she gave him 2 or 3 different medicines she had at home, very strong medications, and we were like , " Stop!! You're gonna kill them if you keep pumping them full of powerful medications like that."  I worked for another doctor's office after I got married, a pediatrician, for a short time and there was this one mom that brought her kids in nearly every week, those poor kids were always missing school. She insisted that one of them had a heart problem and made us do an EKG on the little boy and he wouldn't lie still during the procedure, so the results probably weren't very accurate. Anyway, it showed some minor little thing, nothing that would ever affect him or cause any sort of problem and she actually got excited!!!! She was like " See? I knew there was something wrong with him" Looking back now, since I'm more familiar with MSBP, I'm sure that's what the whole issue was.  If there actually was something wrong with your son's heart, why in the world would you be excited about that? Wouldn't you be worried? Had I know then about Munchausen's, I would have reported these cases, but I didn't know there was such a thing. It's so hard to believe that parents actually WANT their children to be sick.I'm a mother of 2 and to me there's nothing worse than your kids being sick or in pain.