Being told to relax at the time of a rectal temperature by real nurses.

Question for the retired nurses and doctors and who are members and for nurses and doctors who are still at practice and who are members.

Through out the years of your medical professional practice, have you ever had to ask the patients to relax right before you took their rectal temperature?

For example ; right before you do the insertion of the rectal thermometer, do you say, "I am getting ready to insert the thermometer into your rectum and you need to relax." If so, please tell your stories.

For members who are not in the medical and when growing up, did you get told to relax right before you got your temperature taken rectally either by a family member or a medical professional person?

When I was and infant, I remember my mom taking my rectal temperature and was told to relax because I was kicking and squirming around and during my toddler times, I was never told to relax because I got use to it because just like I said under other topics, I had a lot of fever caused by ear infections. When my temperature was taken rectally at a doctor's office, I was never touched by a nurse or a doctor because my mom was always the one taking.