Beginning of four to six long weeks.

Oh no! The poor wee lamb

I feel for you and your family Sherrytex. My oldest is four and it is almost impossible to keep him still. He refuses to watch tv and just wants to run and play. I would hate to think what to do if he was in the same situation as your girl. You are all in for a tough time and the only advice I can offer is to develop a routine and quick. By that I mean figure out what is most comfortable activities to do and best times to play and sleep. You know what I mean. When my oldest was about the same age as your girl his mum went to Europe for five weeks. I was Mr Dad and I am so thankful that nothing went wrong and I learnt very early all about routine. Good luck.

JJ

Best wishes to you, and get-well-soon to your daughter.

Poor little baby. And poor Mom! I have a 20-month-old. I know what you mean. Time to pull out the DVDs, if you have them. We also have a chair for Emmory that's her size; it's one of those fold up chairs with arms. They have them in different styles, like with animal faces on them. Maybe if you let her pick one of those out, she'd be more likely to sit longer.

Good luck, Sherry. And may God have mercy on you this next six weeks!

Yes. I know. The Wiggles will help (Aussie boys).

JJ

I hope your sweet little girl isn't in too much pain. Good luck with everything.

Poor baby! And poor mommy. I've got a few of those toddler-type people in the house, and I've just got two words of advice for you:

Duct Tape.

(kidding!)

Really, though, you're probably going to be back to infancy with her. You sleep when she sleeps.

Oh no! I'm so sorry, please give her a *gentle* hug from us!

I feel your pain and here's gentle for both you and the baby... I hope she feels better real soon!

Oh man! I'm sorry! That sucks. I hope it starts feeling better soon!!

that is horrible.

duct tape all eight of them.

I feel for you!
My Mom broke her collar bone and she was miserable. Hers took forever to heal, but that is another story (related in a way, foreboding I guess to what I posted on SYW). I've heard that kids heal much much faster. I hope they have some good pain medication for you to give her. She'll probably choose to take it easy because too much activity will hurt... load up on the dvds, yummy snacks and kids books.

How did it happen?

Red wine goes with anything.

Skip the ice cream and head straight for the wine.

It probably was just bad luck, but there are some medical problems that predispose to fractures and the Orthopedist may or may not think to look for them in a child. You should probably talk to the pediatrician and ask if the mechanism of injury explains the fracture or if they should check some other stuff like urinary levels of calcium and phosphorus as well as others

You could try the Wallace and Grommet videos, my kids loved them at that age.

I still like them.

Oh poor baby and poor Mommy, too. I broke my collarbone about 10 years ago in a car wreck. It was terrible. I hope she heals quickly, and you are able to sleep.

I bet she is sooo unhappy! Poor baby!
I hope you both come through this with the least possible trouble.