My 3.5 year old broke his arm on Friday.

He was climbing on a split rail fence and one of the rails suddenly buckled under his weight. He crashed to the ground and fell on his left arm. The broken bone wasn't immediately obvious since it wasn't a compound fracture, but he wouldn't move his hand and cradled it all the way home. My wife and father-in-law were with him at the time and they put him on the couch to let him rest, thinking he had just sprained it. After a couple of hours they decided to be better safe than sorry and took him to urgent care when he still wouldn't move it. The whole time between the fall and urgent care he didn't cry once, not a drop. I arrived there from work and walked into his room to find the nurse had just confirmed via x-ray that his arm was broken. It was a relatively mild greenstick fracture in both arm bones. Nothing too serious, but we are all concerned just the same.When he heard that his "arm was broken," he started sobbing. We suspect that he felt that he, as a whole, was now broken just like some of his toys. We temporarily reassured him that he, like his toys, can be fixed and be good as new. The splint went on and we carried him out of the medical center as he wept. We got home and he took a long nap. That night, he had to go to the bathroom about 15 times in a row at 5-minute intervals, not sure why...probably some residual trauma? Last night, he worked himself up into a tantrum and it was hard to get him to relax and go to bed. Keeping it on ice has been hard. Bathtime has been a source of anxiety.Today, we got a real cast put on and he was very calm and brave at the doctor's office. He's asleep now under grandma's care, the in-laws have left, and things are settling down (hopefully).Just thought I'd share this story. Hope all your little ones stay safe and don't let your kids climb fences. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2aqGmtG