Making eye contact with your parent or chaperone while being examined

I usually watched the doctor. He had treated all of us, and mom trusted him and she was in the room more just in case there was a problem. She probably paid closer attention than I remember, but she had been through this with my older siblings, so probably kept it low key to spare me embarrassment, once I hit 6 or so.

I definitely did several times when pretty young. Most commonly it would happen when I was flat on my back on the table. My mom would sometimes stand next to the table near my head (either at the side or behind the head of the table if there was room). She would at times kind of caress my hair or cheek to soothe me I suppose, and I'd end up looking up right at her as I was being examined.

Yeah I’ve got a good memory like this. My favourite physical exam ever was the pre-op I had when I was 9 years old, and I won’t re-draft the memory here as I’ve talked about it in several other topics, but I do remember making eye-contact with my mum while I was being listened to by the doctor with a stethoscope and I think it did add something special to the memory, as I was sitting there already with a tent in my pants and I think my look at my mum was ‘PLEASE don’t notice but I’m playing it cool and acting like it’s just a thing even if you have noticed’ (I think she totally did, but she was my hero for never mentioning it or acting like it was any kind of big deal)

The last time that I went into the exam room and wasn't on my own when I was 12, I tried to keep eye contact with the doctor. But whenever I glanced over at my mother she was looking in my direction and my big brother smirking at my discomfort as I was embarrassed about being stripped down to my boxers in front of them.

Even with my embarrassment I could feel myself growing downstairs so fortunately for me I didn't have to take my boxers off as I'd have been mortified if I'd had to.