
Perhaps a real milestone as a mother is being able to go to the toilet alone. It’s a short reprieve from the relentlessness of small people wanting to know your every move.
Mother of two, Laura Thomas*, is used to sharing her personal space with her five-year-old daughter, Kate and two-year-old son, Cooper.
This week, the 38-year-old mum hadn’t been feeling well, so she decided to take a trip to the bathroom, alone – and then the police got involved.

A police car was dispatched when London toddler Cooper called 999. File image via iStock.
"At one point yesterday, I rushed to the toilet leaving Cooper and Kate in our front sitting room. I heard one of them pressing phone buttons but I was pretty much stuck on the toilet. If I'm at home alone with the kids I pretty much always have to leave the door open so I can hear what they're up to.
"So I yelled - 'stop playing with the phone!' - and thought no more of it. Then after a while I heard the phone ringing but I was still stuck on the toilet and I also thought it was them holding buttons down or something," said the 38-year-old.
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My son phoned the police many years ago (completely unbeknownst to us) and the first we knew about it was when they turned up on our doorstop several HOURS after the call was logged. Good thing it wasn't an actual emergency!