To think this isn't neglect?

[KadieFae]

Popped to the shop leaving baby downstairs. DP upstairs listening out. Not asleep or dead or anything. Baby in playpen. Playing quietly. I was gone less than a minute (shop is essentially next door)

Sounds fine right?

My DM has phoned the SS on me. AIBU?

Why? There was a parent in the house. How did DM even know about it?

What! Did she know there was an adult in the house?!

Your partner was there. I don’t get it

Incomprehensible.

Is there a huge backstory here?

Ss won't take a blind bit of notice.

How did DM find out?

Shop next door, baby contained safely, another adult upstairs... How is that any different from you nipping upstairs for a shit?

Your DM sounds batshit, you've nothing to worry about OP

I'm guessing MIL doesn't like you and/or her son.

Wow I assume there is some backstory here?

You can't have been gone less than a minute, not really. 3 minutes, maybe. How old is the baby? I wouldn't leave an awake baby in a separate room and floor to an adult for any period to be honest, I'd be too worried about choking.
Having said that, social services won't give a fig about this. More concerning is why your mum would call them in the first place?!

Walnut even worse, it's her own mother, not MIL!

You left your baby confined in a safe playpen, with your DP within earshot in the same home, to run next door for a couple minutes? And your mother called ss on you? Wth is wrong with her? I'd be thinking very hard about cutting her out of your life. That level of trouble making is dangerous. Very dangerous. I'd be livid.

Your mum phoned social services because you went out and left your DH in charge of the baby.

Because essentially that's what happened here...

YANBU. How is leaving them downstairs in a safe playpen with no choking hazards any different to leaving them in their cot in the evening upstairs when you are downstairs?

Why do you have any contact with this batshit woman??

Cunt move on your mum's part

I doubt SS would even be interested in this! However I seriously think you need to go no contact with your mum! (Never said that on here before)

Eh? It doesn't matter if you had gone all the way into town for an hour - there was a competent adult in the house.

How does she know and why did she phone ?

She must have given you a reason for this op, why is she saying she did it?

Something missing here?

Yeah just echoing everyone else really to ask how she even knew that and clearly No YWNBU

Nope, thats the whole story. I literally live that close to a shop, I counted before it is about 15 steps door to door. My mother is an interfering cow and always has been.

Mentioned in passing when I bumped into her today, to be shocked at her going apeshit at me, and before starting this thread, had just put the phone down to her after she said 'I've rang the social, its for your own good.'

She fucking baffles me.

If there really is nothing else , I would be cutting contact, or asking for Adult Social Care to give her a MH check over because she sounds addled.

That's very odd, is she OK mentally? I wouldn't have someone like that in my life, mother or not