Sorry, just a bit of background here: on Sunday my son had an accident, he climbed up on his pram when I wasn't looking and it tipped over, he broke the fall with his mouth on the bottom stair. Poor thing, he was so upset, there was blood everywhere and his lips were cut to shreds. We went to A & E and the doctor said that he had an impacted tooth but that the graze on his chin and the cut lips were superficial and would heal.
On Monday we spent the day at the doctors and the dentists and they said the same thing. Both my dh and I were mortified, I felt so guilty about not watching him for that time he climbed up on the pram, I am sure it was about 10 seconds, but still I should have seen it.
Anyway on Monday evening we all went to the doctor for my dh (different GP than mine) - a prebooked appointment - and I excused myself early to change ds's nappy. The doctor then grilled my dh on what happened to ds, asking what happened, when it happened, why one of us wasn't watching him etc. He then said that the authorities can get called over things like this and basically implied that we would be charged for neglect. Following that he told my dh to make sure it never happened again. I mean wtf?
I was ready to go back in and give him what for, but dh stopped me. My own doctor that morning had told me that things like this happen when dcs are walking right beside us and to not worry. But AIBU? Could we be charged for something like this?