Questions about taking your rectal temperature

For me B and B,

B and B

B and B

For me it was a mixture of mom or dads lap at home and my bed if I was sick usually. Lay across their lap on the couch normally or sometimes I'd be laying on the couch and one of them would sit down beside me and slip my panties off . Then the Vaseline and a finger followed by the thermometer . It never bothered me or frightened me at all. I honestly wasn't embarrassed to much if I had a friend over, but if other family was there I'd be wishing I was in my room with just me and mom or dad.

B and B

Three years old in the hospital, on my side and the nurse moved it in and out some

Always over my dad’s lap and if he wasn’t home my mom preferred on my tummy in my bed. I remember at my Dr office it was on the table on my tummy.

After reading the questions, my answers are both to both questions. As I got older, it was on the bed or exam table.

#1: NA

#2: I was either over my mother’s lap or on the exam table when my temp was taken by a nurse.

B and B

B and B

Question #1: When your temperature was being taken rectally either by your mom or another family member, how did you lay for the thermometer to be inserted?

A. Over the person's lap for the insertion?

B. On the bed for the thermometer to be inserted.

Mom, my older sisters, several of mom's neighbor lady friends, and the nurses at the clinic all took my temperature rectally. At home it was taken at several different places. Sometimes while I was laying on my bed, sometimes when I was laying on mom's bed, sometimes when I was laying on a doubled sheet spread on the floor, or later on, when I was laying on the padded-top exam table that mom asked dad to build in an extra room of our house. For all these temperature checks, I was always laying tummy down, my arms at my side, and my underwear at my knees or sometimes completely removed. I was always positioned where I could watch them prep the rectal thermometer.

However, I did have my temperature taken rectally by two of mom's neighbor friends while they had me laying across their lap. They told me they took their children's temperature like that. Each of them told me that if it was too uncomfortable for me, that they would take my temperature while I was laying on my tummy. Both of them also completely removed my underwear before positioning me across their lap. For these temperature checks, I was able to see only one of mom's neighborhood lady friends prep the rectal thermometer. The other one had already prepped the rectal thermometer when she went to clean it after taking her son's temperature. I guess she had only one rectal thermometer, and not several like mom did at our house.

Question #2: When the nurses took your rectal temperature, did you

A: Lay over the nurse's lap?

B: Lay on the exam table?

When my temperature was taken by the nurses at the clinic, I was always laying tummy down on the examination table, my arms at my side, and my underwear at my knees or sometimes completely removed. I always watched the nurses prep the rectal thermometer.