Diaper-change position used to take a rectal temperature

The diaper position feels better than on the tummy. For some reason, you can feel the thermometer etchings. Another good reason to rely on the vintage glass "orgasm" Kings.

Mom often used the diaper position for both RT's and enemas. I found the diaper position for enemas especially exciting because I could clearly see the bagful of water going down as mom slowly released the clamp and massaged my tummy. And of course, she and I could maintain eye contact and exchange smiles as I took my enema!

I never had my temperature taken in this position by someone else, but I have done it that way myself a few times. I recently took a female friends temperature in that position, certainly made the temperature taking experience MUCH more interesting!

This topic keeps coming up and I keep saying the same thing! So, let me be brief. First, if you're into feeling humiliated and degraded, that's up to to you. The mean mention of this "position" makes me angry!

Now I always say, "Play safe, sane, and enjoy". Using the so-called diaper change position to take a rectal temp (or give an enema) in an adult is just plain irresponsible. I don't even endorse it in infants /children! It is way too easy to misguide the thermometer or enema tip /nozzle and puncture the rectal wall. The rectum does not allow for "ease of use" in this position! For those of you familiar with San Francisco, it's like trying to drive in a straight line on Lombard Street! You're heading for disaster!

Please! Drop this "diaper change" thing once and for all! My piece being said, to each their own. Please play safe and sane!

I couldn’t agree more, great post Becca.

I never had it as a kid but did as an adult, was a lot of fun with me at 6. Never knew a thermometer could go there. Ohh Ohh I found out different.

I just tried the diaper-changing position and I did not like it. I like on my side or on the bed on my tummy.

It is not a bad position because let you very exposed into a role play where the embarassement is important. However for the same reasons i prefer to be OTK for a rectal temp taking.

All of the rectal temperatures I remember from childhood were taken on my stomach. However, when my sister and cousin were babies, I remember my mom taking theirs in diaper position.

I another reason why I don't like the Diaper-changing position is because after I insert the thermometer into myself and try to steady my legs up to my chest, the thermometer pops out or slides out of my rectum real easy and I have to reach and sometimes hold it place.

Sometimes I take suppositories in the diaper position.

When i was in Hospital as a child i can not remember that they have ever used the Diaper Change Position an anyone. What they did was that they let the patients roll on the left side and took the temperature in this Position.

Only some befriended parents used the diaper Change Position on their babies for the suppositories Insertion. But even this was only done as Long as their childs were babies. As soon as the grew up the parents changed the Position. At least thats what they told me.

I am 72 and Drs nurse as taken my temp rectally for some TIME

My grandma would always take my temperature in the diaper position. She would always say it give the best acces 😢 and no clenching. So spankings, suppositories and enemas by her were given this way. Sometimes my grandpa or aunt would hold my legs up and back.

I used several positions when I took my rectal temp, but most of the times I use glass thermometers and it is very hard to keep the thermometer inside while I take my temperature in diaper position. I have to keep the thermometer with one of my hands. But it is funny, not my favorite position, but I like to take my rectal temperature in diaper position.

For the zillionth and last time ... DIAPER CHANGE POSITION IN ADULTS .... NO!!!!!!!!!!

End of post, end of story! If you want to puncture a rectum, it's on you now!

PLAY SAFE!

@beccarnmommy has a very solid point. It is just dumb to use this "diaper position" which can injure you when you can simply do it over the knee or in Sims which are safer positions. Now that I think of it, inserting a douche nozzle in this position would be dangerous too,right?

Caresabouthealth: You mean a douche nozzle in the rectum?

caresabouthealth said

@beccarnmommy has a very solid point. It is just dumb to use this "diaper position" which can injure you when you can simply do it over the knee or in Sims which are safer positions. Now that I think of it, inserting a douche nozzle in this position would be dangerous too,right?

NO.

It isn't a problem or dangerous at all.

I think though I do have to be more careful and gentle with inserting the douche nozzle because of its ridges. Because in that position to make sure all is safe I have to go slow otherwise it can hurt.

~ Caresabouthealth

I insert the douche nozzle on my side then roll over on my back. Then I can massage my tummy as the enema flows in.

Temperatures on adults and older children should be taken on their tummies or on their sides.

This so-called diaper change position is yet another lonely adult fantasy here!

I am someone that experienced a great deal of rectal temperatures, both as a child and teen, and I cannot remember having the diaper position used at all. Maybe when I was a baby.

They always used that position on me. I screamed and kicked. so most of the time one hold my hands while the other one hold my legs and put the rectal thermometer, ... into my butt.

@Pecan_nutjob Correct, a douche nozzle.

~ Caresabouthealth

My earliest childhood memory is of being in the daiper-change position when I was two or three years old and getting a suppository on my mom's bed. I remember my mom leaning over me, smiling as though to reassure me that that there was nothing to worry about, and then pushing what felt like a soft greasy object up my butt.

I remember trying to resist its entry by clenching my buttocks but the daiper-change position made that effort hopeless and up it went followed by mom's finger. The invasion was dreadful and a total shock because it felt like pooping but in reverse! I don't remember much more than that, other than the fact that I was pretty devastated by the whole ordeal, crying inconsolably and completely confused why she had done this to me.

I just don't recall having my temp taken in the diaper change position. My earliest memories were at the doctor while in elementary school and the nurse making me lay on my tummy. As I got older and saw other doctors, I have had to get it taken lying on my side as well and it does feel different. I am not sure what to attribute this to but definitely lying on my stomach causes me to react more. I feel the thermometer more sensitively and clench to a much larger extent than if lying on my side with my knee pulled up. This opens up my anus for sure and it just feels less intense.

My pediatrician surprised me when he had me laying on table moved my knees up then pulled my legs back and before I could say anything he was taking my temperature rectally with my knees to my chest, i was 18. Know i like to have that in a play situation only had once but would love a doctor or play doc to do it again.

I have had my rectal temperature taken many times in my youthful years. When mom took it, I laid on my stomach over a bed while my aunt took it while I laid over her lap.

I like this position, though it's hard on my back