Thanks for your replies. The Nursery do have an accident book and the only time she has hurt herself and they didn't see/record it was when she broke her collar bone! This sounds more alarming that the event actually was which is why I didn't put it in my original post. She had fallen over in the morning and hardly cried, she told her Keyworker she had hurt her knee. As her knee wasn't grazed, bruised or the fall witnessed they didn't put it in the book. During the day she didn't seem well and when I collected her they thought she was under the weather, hadn't eaten much but had no temperature. To cut a long story short, I took her to A&E as her collarbone was bruised and swollen (only apparent when I undressed her) but as she had full use of her arm even the Doctor was thinking it was some sort of infection/localised allergy reaction or (less likely) deep bone infection coming through. As she is so active, plays with the rougher boys, always outside, and as Bloom mentioned, very daring with little sense of danger I was happy to accept that she had obviously put her hands out to break her fall. While she was wearing the sling it became quite apparent that this type of break from a fall is not uncommon.
Well, last night when I collected her I was asked to sign the accident book as she had a bruise on her forehead. One of the boys had knocked her over. You can imagine my mind going into a spin as it was less than an hour since asking you all if I should be worried after MIL expressing her view!!! Before I could say anything at all her keyworker asked me if I agreed with her that maybe my dd should have a half hour nap during the day as it seems that she has been quite clumsy since we stopped her daytime nap some weeks ago. Equilibrium once again restored.
Last night I asked dh to speak to MIL and explain about the nap thing and maybe hint that she was a bit quick to form such a strong opinion with a sensitive issue. I would never EVER compromise my daughter's safety, let alone pay for daycare I wasn't confident with. ARGHHHH. To make me cringe even more, my SIL rang later in the evening and mentioned 'I hear you're having problems with the Nursery'.
In my opinion she probably keeps falling over at the moment as MIL bought her some Barbie 'flashing' trainers and she walks around looking at her feet!!! Anyway, I'm even more confident in the Nursery as I hadn't even thought about her being clumsy as she isn't coping with such a long day. Bad mother...................