[AnnieK]

You definitely would know. My son had a fall the other week (he is 2). I took him to a and e as I knew he was seriously in pain as it was a different cry than I had heard before. They looked him over and sent us away as if I was neurotic. I was back 2 days later demanding an X-ray because I just knew something was not right and it turned out his collar bone was broken!!! Ribs are so much more painful and that child must have screamed every time she was picked up. No way her mother would not know something was wrong.