Baby trod on at nursery

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Any advice. A nursery worker stepped on my baby's arm this morning. I was there. She got up quickly and didn't see my ds behind her. Arm really red and swollen but I think she's fine.

Obviously it was a mistake, but I was just wondering something. Her shoes were very hard soled trainers. With no give. Other members of staff were wearing much softer sold shoes like school gym shoes. The hardness of the shoes definitely made it worse.

Do you think I should mention that maybe it's a good idea that staff try and wear softer soled shoes or Aibu?

Spudina - on what grounds?

Your poor baby. And poor staff member they would have felt terriable to.

I work in a nursery and our rule are no shoes just socks or slippers in the room.2 reason.. its cleaner and we dont treak in things.. but its also safer if any accidents happen.

I hope they filled out an accident form.

Inwould talk to the manager and see if they can bring in a no shoes rule

I would take baby to doctor just to be sure.

1 in a 1000 people die due to having an x-ray???? Um, are you sure about that?

Although I will say when ds was a small baby he had three X-rays on his whole body which I found out afterwards is a regular money making trick this particular hospital performs. I still feel totally sick just thinking about it now.

Of course the shows make a difference - in a lighter thinner sole or sock Shen would have felt that she was treading on something before it got to the point of applying pressure and there is less "give" in a harder so,e so therefore more direct pressure applied to the area

No way is x-raying someone a money making trick!! nless you are paying privately, of course. Each action the NHS takes is a drain on the resources, not a money making trick!

OP, I hope your baby is ok. I would be inclined to keep a very close eye for a while. Not likely to be actually broke, but may be a greenstick fracture in one so young and they are less obvious.

It wasn't the NHS, it was in the States.

1 in 1000 people will die as a result of having an X-ray

That's bollocks. Total, complete and utter bollocks. There has been a number quoted around that 1 in 1000 children who have an abdominal CT (several hundred times the radiation dose of an xray, and looking at the most vulnerable group, having the highest radiation test) might develop cancer. Though that is based on much older kit than we use now, so the doses, and therefore the risks, have since then shrunk quite a lot. But from a plain xray? Oh, come on, you'll get more irradiation from flying across the Atlantic, or living in Cornwall for a few months. Please don't scaremonger like that.

Yes radiation exposure prevention is important. Which is why we have the whole Irmer approach, where any test requiring ionising radiation must be clinically justified. This isn't the US, we don't do xrays unless we need to. But they can be life saving.

That is absolutely incorrect about X rays

I agree I would go to have it checked out just in case. Also I had very regular xrays as a child and I am still going strong 60 years later

That figure was given to me by the Head of Medical Physics at a large teaching hospital. However it was 10 years ago and I can't substantiate it any further. I'm fully aware of Irmer, background radiation etc. The statistic just stuck in my head. My point essentially is this; if a medical professional tells you that your child needs an X-ray, then of course that's the right thing to do. But what I wouldn't do, is demand an X-ray when a Dr tells me it's not required, because MN tells me my child needs one. If I have worried anyone I apologise. It was not my intention. I just want to point out that X-rays should not be performed without good clinical reasons.

Years ago I read that a chest xray gives you the same amount of radiation as a year's radiation from the sun. That was probably a medical type book and not the DM as I studied similar stuff in the past.

No one has 'demanded' anything against a Dr's wishes though.

Even if they had, using incorrect information about x rays killing one in every thousand people is not the way to dispute it.

OP how is your little one now?

She stood on your baby- yanbu

Ross She's fine, took her to gp who checked her out and said that no damage has been done.

I work in a nursery and baby rooms do usually have a no shoes policy - ours does... the accident wasn't great but I would use it as a way to help them move forward - make sure there are no shoes in the baby room or socks/slippers as pp have addressed. Yanbu but accidents do happen so defo speak to them more about it glad your little one is ok xx