Tweenies helped girl save mother

A two-year-old who had seen characters on the children's television show Tweenies dial 999 called the emergency services after her mother collapsed. Isabelle Keeling raised the alarm as her mother Joanne, 34, suffered an allergic reaction to latex at their home in Bournemouth, Dorset.

Mrs Keeling told her daughter: "Can you get the phone, mummy is poorly". Isabelle managed to open the door to let in neighbours and paramedics who treated her mother.

Mrs Keeling felt the allergic reaction come on and used her Epi-pen adrenalin jab but it did not immediately work and she collapsed. Mrs Keeling said: "I heard Izzi on the phone talking to someone and I was thinking I need that phone and now is not the time to be talking to someone by pressing the redial button."


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But all the time Isabelle was on the line talking to the operator and she was able to give her name, address and telephone number. The toddler had recently watched an episode of Tweenies where she had seen how to call 999.

Mrs Keeling added: "What she did was amazing but that's Isabelle really. From an early age she has been very, very chatty.

"She picks up everything we say and last year after the US Presidential elections she was going around saying 'US president Obama'. I never imagined her wonderful ability to retain information would one day help me."