DD's arm broken at playgym... bugger.

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Yesterday met DD's friend from school at playgym. Fairly quiet due to scorching weather, however her friend lovces this playgym so we agreed to meet there. I hate them, I book birthday parties for dc at a local one that's really small and closes so only party children are there, not open to other people, iykwim.

anyway, DD has come down this long wavy slide, got to bopttom, and a much older looking fgirl (dd is 5, girl looked easliy 8 and stocky build) has gome straight doen after dd and landed into her. Whatever contact has been made has broken dd's arm and bent it!

As soon as DD came over screeching and sobbing I loked at her arm and there was abig dip in it so knew it was an A&E trip. Brilliant at A&E, stright through triage, quick xray, potted up then sent n to next hospital and admiitted overnight for DD to go to theatre for it straightening a re-potting with full arm length cast.

DD now back home and pooped, has been sleeping about 3 hours, keep checking on her and she is getting lost of rest.

The playgym have the usual 'parental responsibilty 'signs up, and I'm not looking for anyone to blame or have a where there's blam,e ther's a claim momnent, but what should I do, if anything? Wer only got back this aft so haven't cvontcted playgym yet to give them an update but they did take my details for an accdent report form.

I know this was just a freak accident, everyday hundreds of kids must slide into each other with little or no impact but this was the 1 out of 1000 freak scenarios. We are going to coast for a week tomorroe for a quiet holiday...

I think I'm rambling and not sure what I'm doing tbh!

Thank you for the post. I did ring the playgym and was on the phone about 15 min, agreed there was no 'blame'issue, but talked about signage, verbal reminders acros sthe tanoy tec, strangeley they do get a lot of negatve reports fr being 'no fun' and strict, but womna did say this is because they are cobstatntly checking and reminf=dng people how to play and stop kids misusing the play stuff. They are in some gov body thingy for playgyms and will be forwarding the report on so there is a log because broiken bones / serious injury was involved, so don't think I can ask much more.

You not rambling,you have been in "cope mode" and this is the come down.I have been in your situation when my ds3 was 7,exactly the same senario except he did his at home when ds2 fell over him,the arm was bent and he was in hospital for a trip to theatre just like your dd.Hope she is comfortable and you enjoy your trip away.

Your poor DD, I hope she's feeling better soon and i hope youre feeling better for having spoken to the soft play people again. It sounds like youve coped amazingly.

My DD broke her arm when she was 1yo, thankfully she didn't need surgery but she had her stookie on over Christmas which was a shame. but kids heal so quickly, I think its the poor old parents that are still traumatised long after the dcs have forgotten!

Thank you for the posts. DD is now racing round onholiday and generally having to bereminded she has a pot on and to not try teetering on the edge of chairs etc to reach things from cupbords. I came back off hol tonight to take DD to fractiure clinic check up in morning and back off on hol after clinic. Definately agree with parents being traumatised long after the DC's!

My sister took her children and her daughters little friend (6) to soft play and the friend broke her arm. My sister is still traumatised and that was 11 years ago.