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    ‘MUMMY, I SWALLOWED A COIN’

    Sep 22, 2021 2 minutes
    AS TOLD TO EVA LEWICKI

    Claire Eva, 35, Pingelly, WA

    Climbing out of bed one Sunday evening, my daughter Emma, three, padded up to me in the lounge, coughing noisily.

    ‘What’s wrong?’ I asked.

    ‘Sorry, Mummy,’ she sniffled. ‘I swallowed a coin.’

    ‘How?’ her dad Rod, 41, asked.

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