2 year old can't put weight on her leg......

[Tiggerish]

she fell down a couple of steps on Saturday evening and hasn't been able to walk at all today. We are going to take her to have it x-rayed tomorrow if it is no better just in case it is fractured.

Has anyone else's lo had anything similar? Did it turn out to be a fracture? (I so hope it is just sprained or something) If it is, will she have to have a pot?

We had this with DD when she was 14 months old. She slipped over on a magazine in our bedroom. Took her to A&E and they said nothing wrong (hmmm). Two days later she still wouldn't stand on it (she had recently learnt to walk). Back to A&E and it was x-rayed and it turned out to be fractured. She had a plaster cast on - they tried a splint but she pulled it off so they had to put her in a proper cast. It was only on for two weeks and everything had healed ok!

She is 10 now and is fine, she's rather annoyed she doesn't remember it though!

Good luck!

Thanks for that Wangle. that your a&e didn't xray straight away. glad your dd is ok now - 2 weeks doesn't sound too bad for a cast.

My instinct tells me it is probably ok but I know that fractures are far more common than sprains at this age.

DP was putting the wheelie bin out with DS when he was about 18 months. DP didn't realise DS was behind him, stepped backwards, knocked DS over, DP tripped and trod on DSs leg. Mortified, guilt ridden DP.
Just like wangle, took him to AandE, who said it was fine. Took him back a couple of days later when he still couldn't weight bear and x-ray showed a fracture.
Cue lifetime of guilt for poor DP!
Apparently it's often quite difficult to see fractures on x-ray for small children, and not all the doctors agreed it was really a fracture. Anyway, he only had a back slab thing on for about 10days, and had a limp for a few weeks after that. Fine now.

Can she weight bear at all, tiggerish?

not really. she keeps saying it hurts and when we made he stand she only put her right foot down. Thing is, if I do some manipulation on it, it doesn't seem too bad at all.

she spent much of today either sitting on someone's knee (v. unusual for her) or crawling.

I don't think DSs leg was too bad with manipulation, that was one reason why they didn't bother to give him an x-ray to start with. Although the doctor did generally seem a bit crap and certainly didn't have a winning way with small children.
Sorry, didn't mean to sound negative tiggerish. Hopefully your dd will seem better in the morning.

you didn't sound negative at all thursdaynext.

I'm really glad to get both your experiences - if she still isn't walking on it tomorrow I'll push for an x-ray. Apart from anything else, I go back to work on wednesday and i really don't need to be dealing with a&e trips then!

When my youngest was one he wriggled out of his high chair and fell down on to the deck in the garden. The next day he couldnt weight bear on his hand when he was crawling, and "limped", crawling with one hand in the air. The GP said nothing wrong, but sent me for ex ray just in case. He had fractured his arm just above his wrist.

The cast fell off after a week, he got a new cast, and it fell of a few days later, but fracture clinic said that bone heals so quickly in such young babies, so he wouldnt put another one on.

Good luck