To not actually believe this story? Nursery incident

Nor are the staff, to be honest

@riceuten Oh wow! I honestly had no idea this would even be allowed. I have to give so many different consent forms to allow for my son’s nursery just to send pics of him via an app etc!
I don’t think I’d be comfortable with webcams at all!

In the realms of possibility - I tripped and whacked my shoulder against our wall unit which resulted in a fracture - the local hospital CF disagreed and said I’d sprained it and gave me exercises to do - never known such pain😡
Hope little one is ok.

A friend broke her ankle while standing up from a chair as it twisted the wrong way so yes I can believe this. However if you have doubts you can ask for witnesses, possible cctv. Accidents do happen, a lot, with kids, always worth questioning of course. Xx

Which leg bone are you talking about? The tibia and fibula are lower leg bones and the femur the thigh bone. What type of fracture was it?

My 4 year old has just fractured his elbow coming down a very small bouncy castle slide! Didn’t even look like a bad or hard landing but broke his arm!

Broke my arm in two places aged nearly 4 running along a landing a tripped. Didn't hit anything other than a carpetted floor...sometimes it's not about the fall it's about not sticking the landing!

Got a mate who tripped running two weeks ago, just a trip. He's waiting on surgery as we speak. He really didn't stick the landing

It could be true.

My Dad shattered his ankle, needing pins,
plates and three months in a cast, walking down ONE step coming out the off-licence (sober). He landed really heavily on a flat foot and it just went.

I dislocated my big toe walking into a table.

It's all about angles and bone strength. Must be a nightmare owning/working in a nursery as accidents genuinely do happen.

A nursery with a webcam - https://www.emmasangelsdaycare.co.uk/our-nursery/i-watch---web-cam

When my ds2 was 3, he broke his ankle getting out of bed. Didn't jump, fall out, just stood on it in a funny way and broke it.

Yes, for these particular nurseries. Not unusual in this part of London.

You haven't been proven wrong OP. You've just heard alot of anecdotal evidence about how sometimes fractures in children can occur easily.

For all the stories you read here there are millions more of children who have had - on the face of it - horrific accidents and walked away completely unscathed.

The injury is 100% worthy of follow up and checking of CCTV. A good nursery would be allowing you in to watch the footage, given that the injury resulted in a fracture. In fact a good nursery with nothing to hide would be begging you to come in and see.

My brother broke both arms falling off a swing so I think it's actually quite easy to break a bone when young

@riceuten they had webcams in the nursery?!?! Is this normal?! 😳

Hi op,

it is very plausible actually but I think it is great that you feel like doublechecking :) lucky cousins.

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To the person who said there is a difference between broken and fractured - this is a very common misconception but it is wrong. Fractured means broken to any degree, from cracked to broken right through to shattered. They are all fractures. The technical name for a hairline crack is a hairline fracture but that doesn't mean fracture = crack.

Look at the definition on this site and especially the diagram of "types of bone fractures" further down the page.

For what it's worth, I have heard of people breaking or cracking bones in circumstances even less dramatic than what happened to the OP's relative, so I believe it.

My sister in law broke her leg really badly climbing out of skinny jeans! The smallest incident can cause a fracture.

Not sure as an few years back my mums Labrador puppy jumped up me, I fell only onto grass and ended up with an broken knee cap so breaks and fractures can happen quite easy.

It concerns me that almost every accident at a nursery, school, or childminder is automatically the fault of the establishment and staff, and NEVER, EVER the child concerned. I had a work colleague who worked as a nursery nurse and gave up when every bruise and cut was subject to the Spanish Inquisition, and when they introduced webcams, Mums would be calling when their child fell asking why the staff didn’t prevent it?

I didn’t call an ambulance when DS broke his leg (sounds a very similar fracture actually - someone landed on him on a trampoline) took him in the car

he didn’t need any attention prior to getting to hospital at all

It isn't an emergency though unless the bone was sticking out. Correct protocol to call the parents first - who could've insisted on an ambulance.

That reminds me of another story.

Me and my friend had been out for a few beers in a beer garden. Walking home with her dog and she went over in her ankle and was wearing boots.

We walked the rest of the way home chatting and arranged to meet for dog walk in the morning and stop for breakfast and coffee.

Went to hers the next day and she didn't answer door. Her dog was barking. I called her phone. She couldn't walk and her ankle was really swollen.
I managed to get in through her open back window. Got her some ice and walked her dog.

When I got back she was an awful colour and her leg felt no better so got another friend and we practically carried her to the car.

She had fractured her ankle.

I still wind her up 15 years later that beer is clearly the best painkiller around!

DN aged about 1, maybe 18 months was sat on the bottom step of the stairs, somehow fell off & fractured her arm. A woman I used to work with managed to sustain a spiral fracture of her leg just by getting out of the car (the very high heels she was wearing may have contributed to it I don't know, she was a passenger btw not the driver). It's surprisingly easy to do. I admit if hadn't known people who had suffered fractures in such unexpected ways I'd question it too but as it is, yes I can believe it!

Ds1 broke his arm at soft play.