Children seeing parents being examined

A topic that often comes up is parents with their children at the pediatrician in the exam room even when the child is a teenager.

This is sort of the opposite. Have any of you ever been there when one of your parents was being examined?

I think when I was around five I went with my mom to her exam, but I really don't recall much...much less if there was a pelvic exam or not.

In my late 20s, I had taken a CNA (certified nursing assistant) class. Well technically I dropped out with a couple clinicals to go.

My dad had his prostate removed a few years ago due to prostate cancer. When we were taking him home from the hospital, the nurse needed to teach him about the catheter that would be staying in for about a week, and I didn't even offer to excuse myself. The nurse did ask him if he was ok with me there. I think there was the student nurse, nurse, charge nurse, me, my mom, and my dad in the room plus the another patient on the other side of the curtain. It was wierd because I didn't feel like oh my gosh I'm staring at my dad's penis. It really just felt more like I was another clinician looking at a patient.

It is very common in the ER to have children stay in the room while a patient is being examined. A lot of single parents, can't leave the child unattended, etc. The other day I had what I would call the most interesting interaction I have ever had with a 4 year old. His mother had come through the ER door doing the "PID Shuffle", a euphemism used to describe the way a woman walks when she has Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID). I was at the desk talking to a nurse when she walked in and the nurse looked at me and said "Paging Dr. Bob". I escorted the young lady to an exam room after she checked in and I instructed her to undress and put on a gown for a pelvic exam. I left and returned a couple minutes later and she was ready, so I performed the exam and all went well. Confirmed the preliminary diagnosis and told her to get dressed. As I turned to get a prescription ready for her, the little boy says to me, "Why did you stick your fingers in my mommy?".

I explained that she is sick and I was trying to help her. The child says, "Oh, just like daddy used to do!". I glanced at the mother, half dressed with a Cheshire cat grin on her face. I didn't say a word, just smiled.

One of my earliest memories (4 or so) is being taken by my mother to one of her doctor's offices. Initially I accompanied her into the exam room, but once she learned what the exam would consist of, my mom seemed to get really embarrassed and said I had to wait outside. (I wasn't old enough to understand the details of the exam, but I assume it was a pelvic exam.)

I wonder if this was one of the early experiences that established a medfet orientation in me. My mother's anxiety and prudishness perhaps created in my mind an idea that what happens in the doctor's office is shameful and secret.

My parents used to try an schedule exams so that one would always be home while the other was at the doctor's but my sister is two years younger then me. I don't remember anything, but I doubt that my dad was able to take off for all the days of the prenatal check ups. The most that I remember is when my mom broke her ankle and I was five-ish, I remember spinning around on the doctor's rolly stool. So yeah, I didn't see much. 😁

When I was little I remember being taken to the doctor for a sore throat. My mother was hoarse and hacking a bit too (she smoked in those days). So the doctor did a throat culture on both of us. I had a virus; she had strep. So my pediatrician asked he if she wanted to go her her doctor or have the nurse give her a penicillin shot. She opted to get the shot there and I watched it all, fascinated.

I never have seen a visit of my parents

I seen physical exam of my brother when i had a kid

I do not recall ever seeing my parents being examined. i do not know if this is a comman practice

My mom told me that she used to take me to her annual exams when I was a baby when she couldn't find anyone to watch me. She figured that I was too young to realize what was going on anyways. Little did she know that I would end up becoming a member of this website and have a major gyno fetish (something she knows nothing about). Thanks a lot, mom...

When I was maybe 11 or 12, my dad and I both had dermatologist appointments at the same time. The dermatologist gave him a full body exam while I was in the room (he had a history of skin cancer).

I've been with my mom at her gyn exams numerous times, mostly when I was younger.

I have taken my children to my drs appointment before.

It is not ideal as mainly it is boring for them. But when not old enough to be home alone and if my niehgbour or sister in law were not free to watch them along they came.

They do not see much as if gave them phone to play with they probably could not have cared less what was happening under the drape.

Does not hurt for them to see that grown ups go to the dr also and have boosters etc.

I take my son when I have to go of have no sitter being a single mom you do what you have to do.

I have never been in this position before--not sure if I would want to be either

When to little to sit outside alone I have been in the room when my mom had a checkup.

I have been in the room during TV scan also but could not see much but was interesting to see the pictures on the monitor.

Remember my Mum lifting up the back of her jumper up for the doctor to listen to her lungs once when I was about 6 or 7. She usually left me and my sister with a neighbour, guess she couldn't on this occasion. Felt odd seeing her being examined. It was usually me or my sister having our chests listened to.

It is very common in the ER to have children stay in the room while a patient is being examined. A lot of single parents, can't leave the child unattended, etc. The other day I had what I would call the most interesting interaction I have ever had with a 4 year old. His mother had come through the ER door doing the "PID Shuffle", a euphemism used to describe the way a woman walks when she has Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID). I was at the desk talking to a nurse when she walked in and the nurse looked at me and said "Paging Dr. Bob". I escorted the young lady to an exam room after she checked in and I instructed her to undress and put on a gown for a pelvic exam. I left and returned a couple minutes later and she was ready, so I performed the exam and all went well. Confirmed the preliminary diagnosis and told her to getWhy did you stick your fingers in my mommy?".

I explained that she is sick and I was trying to help her. The child says, "Oh, just like daddy used to do!". I glanced at the mother, half dressed with a Cheshire cat grin on her face. I didn't say a word, just smiled.

LMAO Busted.

During a visit for my sick mother at home, she and the family doctor were in a separate room but through the glass I saw my mother's breasts during the examination and then he made her lie down on the couch to feel her belly and I saw part of her dark pubis.

Seen one of my moms gyno exams. I think I was 16 or 17. She had carpal tunnel surgery and she asked if I would go help her. So I did. So yeah I’ve more than just watched lol. I helped her undress, held the pee cup, helped her dress. That was just while I was there I’ve helped her with several things since then and after that.

I may have gone with her once or twice as a little kid too. But I can’t fully remember but seems I remember her in a gown with no clothes on lol.

I remember going in with my mom to her yearly exam as a child. It was a pretty quick exam, but I enjoyed seeing the doc give her a nice deep belly exam. I guess that's how my interest in belly exams started as well, lol.

When I was really young my mother took me with her to her doctors appointment. I was drawing pictures with one of the nurses in the office and she was needed elsewhere so she brought me into the exam room. The room was dark with a huge light on her vagina and my mom had her legs in high stirrups. The older male gyno was sitting between her legs applying some kind of salve to the inside and outside of her vagina with a gloved finger. I couldn’t believe he was just moving his finger in and out. The nurse put me up by my moms head and left. I still remember being shocked by the doctor applying this med from her clit and sticking his finger inside her vagina like it was nothing.

A friend in Jr high described his dad getting a sigmoidoscopy. I found out later in life, his description was correct. Ca 't believe the dr let his kid stay in the room for that

When I was 16 my father and I had joint full skin exams at the dermatologist. My father had had skin cancer and I think my parents wanted to instill the importance of yearly exams but it was really awkward and uncomfortable. My dad stripped bare and put on a gown. I was told to strip to my briefs and put on a gown. Then my dad and I sat side by side in gowns waiting for the doctor. My dad went first and by the end his gown was completely torn off and he’d spread his butt cheeks in front of me. I was really ashamed of my slightly doughy body so being in my underwear in front of my dad was equally uncomfortable. Overall not an experience I can recommend. Maybe with a partner or friend, but not with a parent

When I was 12 my mother was breast feeding my brother and she went to her gp because of breast swelling. I was in the room seeing the doctor examine my mother's breasts.

I never experienced this but I had a friend who was talking with me about an experience where he and his dad got an exam right after each one by the same doc when he was 18.

Pretty much the dad needed the same form filled out (camp) and the dad was hoping he would just fill it out. But the doc said he would need to examine him in order to do so and the dad said sure as long as it could be done in that moment. And since it was a family physician….they did it that way. He said it was weird seeing his dad in his whity tighties as well as getting felt up and touched. His dad had no shame and was already in his underwear when his son was getting examined.