The fracture is 4 cm, and nondisplaced, so there is nothing they will do for it. She will have a repeat x-ray in 3 months to ensure that it is healing and not widening.
I think this happened at her babysitter's house. a couple of weeks ago she was going down the stairs backwards just like Kathy has been teaching her to do. There is a little set of 3 stairs from her kitchen to the living room. I guess she took a tumble and whacked her head pretty hard on the corner of the wall. That would be my best guess as to when it happened. Kathy called me when it happened and we watched her that day for any signs of concussion, but there weren't any. She got a lump on her head, and that was what prompted me to take her in because it has been there so long. The doctor quizzed me about the sitter, but I truly feel that she is not negligible, and I vehemently feel that it is not abuse. Plus, Kathy feels just terrible about it. I guess things like this can happen anywhere. I feel so bad for not taking her in sooner, but the outcome would have been the same, anyway. Poor baby! No wonder she has been so fussy.