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Oh no. I SO get worst mother of the week if not year award. I nearly didn't take her to A&E and she's got a fractured arm, she's only a baby :-(

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Thomcat · 26/08/2008 20:46

Oh I feel so, so dreadful.

I was umming and arring, wondering if it was worth a trip to A&E, posted on here about it this morning, knew in my heart I should just get it checked out. Pooteled up there this afternoon.

Got there and the doctor looked at her, pulled her arm, felt a little pop, thought that was it and said give it 10 mins see how she got on but he was pretty confident he'd sorted the problem.

10 mins later she was still crawling using the flat of her arm on her right hand side. Doctor couldn't understand it. Said there was something wrong but couldn't understand what it could be.

Took hr blood, temperature then sent her for x-rays.

Turns out to be a fracture.

Woman doing x-ray and pediatrician were amazed.

Said she must have a really high pain threshold.

She cried a bit as they were really manipulating her arm but very soon got over it.

She made no fuss. She was just amazing.

She's only just turned 11 months.

She's been crawling in this odd way since Sunday.

Oh I feel like the worst mother in the world.

We went out for the day yesterday to a safari park so she was in her car seat for a lot of the day or on my lap. She was banging on the window at the lions etc. She seemed fine other than her odd crawl. But she wasn't fine, she was all broken!

Now she's in a cast from the top of her arm to her fingers.

She's so great and brave and I'm stupidly laid back and crap!

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Thomcat · 26/08/2008 21:16

Thanks everyone

Bodiddly, oh no, bless him, I hope you get it sorted asap with the minimum amount of tears Let us know how you get on.

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lulurose · 26/08/2008 21:16

Oh poor you (and DD obviously!), you mustn't blame yourself in any way...children are amazing, they just get on with it.

DD2 was really ill for 2 weeks prior to her being diagnosed with type one diabetes, I just thought it was a urine infection. Felt truly awful when I rolled up to A and E with a semi conscious baby.

I hope she's feeling loads better soon and that you don't keep going over it (easier said than done!!)

Take care

falcon · 26/08/2008 21:16

You aren't a bad mother at all, even drs miss fractures.

I had a severe fracture of the humerus once and was screaming in pain and even then after feeling my arm the dr couldn't tell if it was fractured or not, so there's absolutely no reason to feel guilty.

I hope both you and your dd feel better soon.

bodiddly · 27/08/2008 15:10

well we are back from the fracture clinic and it turns out he has a fractured humerus so i definitely win the crap mum award as he did it on sunday! that said they cant do anything for it as it is so high up and he flatly refused to let them anywhere near him with a sling. i now have to try and find someone to look after him for 3-5 weeks as it is too risky for nursery to take him.

MatNanPlus · 27/08/2008 17:51

at the diagnosis but at least you have one now

Speedy recovery mini bodiddly

ImnotMamaGbutsheLovesMe · 27/08/2008 17:53

You are not a bad mum. You would be a bad mum if you knew it was broken and did nothing.

Buy her a treat and yourself some chocolate and I hope she is soon as right as rain again.

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Thomcat · 27/08/2008 20:56

Oh Bodiddly, you poor lot
Hope you get childcare sorted.

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QuintessentialShadow · 27/08/2008 21:00

I so sympathise, it is horrid when little ones fracture their bones.

DS2 had just turned one when he managed to unstrap himself from his booster seat and fall down to the garden deck. I had my back turned as our builders had dug up the water mains, I was looking at our impromptu swimming pool.

It was 3 days before I took him to the doctors, as he was limp crawling. He did not appear to be in any pain.

When they are young, broken/fractured bones heal really quickly. He only needed his cast for a week and a half. He was fine. So dont worry, they are mending before your know it.

tissy · 27/08/2008 21:02

Thomcat, I told my 4 yr old to "put up with" the pain in her foot after she fell at my Mum's house. She walked (hobbled) on and off the plane on the way home 2 days later, and only then did I take her to A+E when I wondered if I should, perhaps be rather more sympathetic. She had a fracture in her foot and ended up in plaster for 3 weeks.

I was mortified, especially as I have some experience in this field. Dd was, however, delighted with her pink plaster and the fuss everyone made of her.

twoluvlykids · 27/08/2008 21:10

my dc fell (when 5 ish) on a Friday, moaned for ages, & I took him to hospital on the following Tuesday - he had a green stick fracture in his arm & he said "see mum i told you it hurt" & a really old man said to me that he had a green stick when he was little & he'd "never forgotten the pain"

twoluvlykids · 27/08/2008 21:14

and when dd was a baby I put a hat on her head & took her for a walk in the pram, she screamed non stop, I was at the end of my tether, when I got her home & took her hat off, one of her little ears had folded down under the hat. It pinged back up was bright red with a line across it. she glared at me (she was about 10 weeks old) & stopped screaming & fell asleep!!!

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HeinzSight · 27/08/2008 22:20

How's that gorgeous girl of yours doing?

Bumperlicious · 28/08/2008 10:09

Don't be silly Thomcat! You are not the worst mother!

It's a fine balance between thinking you are being precious or when something is really wrong! She sounds like a real trouper, and think of the fun she have annoying her siblings with her cast!

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Thomcat · 28/08/2008 20:39

Arrr thanks all.
She's doing just great.
She's totally unbothered about it.
Thinks it's quite funny to bang it on the table and make her sisters laugh!
It's also covered in spag bol which is nice, and smells even nicer, already

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HeinzSight · 28/08/2008 21:58

Am glad she's coping well with it all.

Spag bol... interesting alternative to having cast signed

MadameOvary · 28/08/2008 22:01

Aw TC, glad you're both ok!

Lizzylou · 28/08/2008 22:02

TC, your DD3 sounds fab, very feisty!
Glad alls well

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Thomcat · 28/08/2008 22:07

I thought of writing on it but thought that might lead to bad things with DD1 and DD2

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HeinzSight · 29/08/2008 22:11

Guadalupe · 29/08/2008 22:18

My mum shouted at me and shut me in my room for two hours when I was five for jumping off the dolls house onto my sister.

She got a biscuit downstairs while I sat and cried. When I wouldn't stop crying they finally realised something was wrong and took me to hospital and my arm was broken. Then I got a sausage sandwich.

Megglevache · 29/08/2008 22:23

TC you poor thing, I would feel the same as you but your dd must be the most laid back /hardest baby in the world, I think she will be cracking beer cans on her head by next year.

At least she's sorted now, she'll heal really quickly and will be telling her friends this story for years to come

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