Mom stayed with me on the exam room until my Late Teen years.When I had to strip naked mom did not even try to look away. She watched closely and very curious. I think she really enjoyed my embarassement.
Mom stayed with me on the exam room until my Late Teen years.When I had to strip naked mom did not even try to look away. She watched closely and very curious. I think she really enjoyed my embarassement.I am not sure about enjoying the embarrassment part because I really was not embarrassed. But my mom was present for all of my physical exams, and other appointments, until the end of high school. My pediatricians back then had me strip completely naked while she stayed in the room. This was not unusual back then - most of my friends were naked for at least a part of their examinations with their mothers in the room. Boys were not supposed to be shy about being naked in front of their parents.
My parents are fortunately very respectful on this matter. Even in early teens, they only entered the room after the detailed genital exam part and listened to the doctor's advise. At 18, only my dad cared to accompany me and he outright refused to enter the room.
I remember not being as embarrassed in the exam room when the pediatrician would do a genital check with me lying down and primarily just pressing on my meatus and testicles.It was when I first had to stand up I noticed my mom watching the exam during one of the first hernia checks I remember. I thought about the female doctor telling me it's time to check on your development, to stand up and lower my underwear. The feeling of her press against groin was something new at the doctors.
I was the fifth of six kids, 4 boys, 2 girls, (Oldest boy is about 12 years older than me, the oldest girl is 9 years older than me, and my other 2 brothers were 8 and 6 years my senior, respectively. My little sister is a year younger than me) and the same doctor had treated us all. There was nothing new to her. (I was born in 1962, so we just did what we were told. I was in the "If you don't stop crying, I'll give you something to cry about" generations.) If the doctor felt he had something to tell her, he'd bring it to her attention, otherwise, she just sat there, often reading a magazine.