Bruising and nursery?

[Cryingout1994]

DD (4) had an accident on Friday evening, while I was getting ready for work she was playing in her room and she pulled her wardrobe on top of her, luckily it was empty as it had just been moved (which is why it wasn't yet tethered although I take full responsibility for the fact it wasn't and it should have been, it was a toddler one also so about 3/4 the height of a normal one.

well at the time she was very shaken as was I and I checked her body for injuries and all it seemed to be was some redness and a few scrapes on her shins. Well I was getting her dressed today and the back of her legs are really bruised I'll attach a picture.

Im horrified they are a mess, she dosnt seem bothered at all by it she's not limping of anything but she has nursery 2 days this week and now I'm worried about what they will say, obviously ill explain what happened but I'm afraid they might report me for it.

I will add it's only the left leg, the right one has 1 small bruise and her shins aren't bruised at all, just a faded scrape is visible now

is the wardrobe fixed to the wall now? If so there shouldn’t be a problem, accidents happen.

Yeah I got DH to do it while I calmed her down

My 3yo DD fell off her toilet stool and wacked the side of her eye on our tiled and boxed in bath.. she had an actual black eye and her pre school never even asked me about it

Just let nursery know, there is nothing suspicious about the bruises so no need to worry.

They will probably make a record of the conversation with you as a safeguarding measure but as a one off that would be it.

Honestly if this is a one off and you explain I shouldnt imagine the nursery will have too much concern. If they are constantly coming in with weird bruises with little explanation then they'd worry

Just tell them straight away, everything that happened. They may take pictures and keep a record on it. However, I don't think they'd contact outside agencies, unless there is history of these kind of accidents.

No the only other time she's had a mark aside from normal childhood shin bruises is when she first started she was running at the park and she tripped and scraped her nose and forehead but that was in September

Our nursery needs accidents and injuries logged but they don't seem to generally ask about bruising. Which is good because my daughter is rough and tumble does gymnastics etc and is often covered in bruises on her legs. Albeit on her shins and not the back of the legs.

It may have been that there was a toy or something under her leg when it fell but I don't know I whisked her up so fast I didn't look, the whole situation was horrifying to be honest

Our nursery would ask me to complete an incident form and that would be the end of it. He's been in nursery for 12 months and I think we've averaged needing to fill in about 1 a month. Unless there are other factors involved it will be very routine for them, it's safeguarding but also protecting themselves from any accusations that it happened at the nursery. Please don't worry and hope your little one is okay x

We would just ask you to fill at an accident at home form. Accidents happen
My DS split his head open when he fell and caught his head on our TV stand. We honestly wouldn't think badly of you, or report you.

This was last week now, I took her in told them about her accident and nothing happened, she just said "oh no, how scary! Is she ok?" I said yes she's fine and no more was said about it, I work myself up about things far to much I think 😄