Times when you are guaranteed to hear 'MUUUMM!'

[SmellyOldOwls]

When you've just sat down with a glass of wine to watch the programme you've been looking forward to all week.

Mid tampon/mooncup insertion (this will always be an urgent call that cannot wait 3 seconds for a response)

When you've just started eating something delicious you'll get the inevitable 'mum I have to poo! Wipe my bum!'

When I lay my head on the pillow to sleep, 15mDD suddenly awakes from her deeeeep slumber from which she hasn't made a peep from 7pm onwards and is wide awake!

@DukkaDukka

As soon as I’ve sat on the toilet.

As soon as I’ve left the room and they can’t see me.

As soon as I’ve gone outside to hang the washing out.

Oh yes there's always a big emergency requiring my immediate presence when I'm hanging the washing out eg the cat is hungry

@Generalpost

Definitely as soon as you talk on the phone.

When I had a sick bug . As I'm vomiting mum mum mum MUM what you doing mum what you doing. Mum mum I'm hungry. What's for dinner.

Oh yes. When i had morning sickness with DD i had to pause a vomiting session so that DS (3) could poo in the toilet.

When you've just managed to transfer the sleeping toddler from your knee into bed, and are trying to disentangle and sneak out. This will always be an especially loud MUUUM, and one that requires the 5yo to run up the stairs and stomp into his sister room to find me, if I haven't answered in 2 milliseconds.

When I’m listening to a really gripping chapter of an audiobook while doing the after-dinner washing up. I’m a sucker for murder mysteries and this should be a perfect time to put in my AirPods for 20 mins-because no one else wants to clean up the kitchen!
One of my teens will wander in saying “Mum, what do you think of X, Y, Z ?” and wish to have an in-depth conversation so I completely lose the thread and have to go back a chapter.

Or they’ll yell from upstairs asking for a drink/hot water bottle/ something else they can’t be bothered to come down and get.