On Friday night I was playing with my 11 month old son in the bath, there was no water in it- he likes going in it when it's dry and picking up his bath toys and throwing them over the side and I pick them up and put then back in. He was holding on to one of the taps to stand up while I bent down to grab two of the toys he had thrown out. I literally wasn't looking at him for 5 seconds and he was just suddenly crying and very upset. I took him out of the bath for a cuddle and noticed his mouth was bleeding and one of his front teeth was visibly protruding forward, with a little blood around it.
My partner and took him to see an A&E dentist and they said that the tooth was solid, not wobbly, so it can stay in and will only be an aesthetic issue for a few years. They also said that it happens all the time with baby teeth and that it will not damage the tooth underneath and to see a dentist in the coming weeks to keep an eye key on it.
For safety we called 111 to also see a dentist the next day, the women on the phone did an assessment, I told her that I thought that he had chewed/fell hard/awkwardly on the tap handle, but I didn't see exactly what happened. She made an appointment for us to see a dentist Sat morning. She then rang back and said she would need to make a safeguarding referral because the incident was in the bath. (even though there was no water in the bath) The dentist we went to see said not to worry about it, my son is fine, and again said stuff like this happens all the time to kids, that it was me that would be affected more by it than my son, (I haven't been able to sleep or eat much since).
I'm now really worried about what the safeguarding referral means and what will happen? I haven't slept for weeks as it is and and now I feel like an idiot because I didn't see that taps as a risk factor which has hurt my child. Any advice and further perspectives appreciated.