Playing with stethoscope as a kid

Did anyone ever have the chance to play with a real or toy stethoscope when you were younger? I know that "playing doctor" is something that a lot of people may have done growing up and a lot of times that would involve playing with a toy stethoscope or trying out a real one that you found lying around the house. I have one experience playing with a real stethoscope with a female friend but I was interested in hearing what kinds of experiences others have had.

I played with a Fisher Price stethoscope with my female cousin as a kid which I enjoyed playing at, moving it across her chest and belly and her across mine, but never a real stethoscope. The closest I got that way was when the doctor gave me a chance to listen to myself with his when I was six. I enjoyed listening to my heart beating away and also giggled at the gurgling sounds coming out of my belly. 😃

I had the Fisher Price doctor kit as a little girl and loved using the toy stethoscope that actually worked 😉 That kit also had the blood pressure cuff that I think you could inflate and the gauge would move...

I had a chemistry set when I was around 10 and made a simple stethoscope out of a funnel and rubber tube. I recall listening to my own and a friend's heartbeat with it.

I never had a real stethoscope. but the classic fisher price doctor set when i was 4 years old.

i dont remember much but i know it was a red/yellow one

Never with real one - play a lot doc and patient with other kids using doctors plastic kit that include also stethoscope.

that Fetish start early 😃

I had a couple of toy stethoscopes when I was between 7-10 yo

I used them a lot on friends as I remember. I didn't get a real one until I was much older

When I was about 6, I had a toy doctor kit with a little bell-type steth that would actually work pretty well on a kid's thin chest. The problem was, the tubing was too short to listen to myself with it and I was an only child. One day, a neighbor girl named Donna who was about 2 years older was playing at my house. We were in my room and she spotted that little steth, She picked it up, looked at it, handed it to me, pulled her shirt up to her chin, and said "Check my heartbeat!" or "Listen to my heart!", something like that. Dumb luck, I must have put it right at her apex because I could hear the strong lub-dup lub-dup lub-dup of her heart loud and clear with the steth on her bare chest. I took a good long listen before I took the steth out of my ears. Then she put them in her ears and told me to pull up my shirt. I've been hooked on hearts and steths ever since.

I used to sneak into my grandmother's room and play with her stethoscope and blood pressure cuff. There wasn't anything naughty about it, I would just sit on her bed and listen to my own heart and abdomen. She kept it hidden because it was a really nice Littmann's that was ancient. She thought I would break it... which DID end up happening, but that's because the tubing had gotten brittle and started to fall apart, same with the blood pressure cuff.

I do remember her letting me use it for Halloween one year when I went as a surgeon. She got me scrubs and we picked up some fake blood that she splattered all over me. It was a lot of fun.

I also grew up with a Fisher Price toy doctor kit that I used to play with when I was REALLY young. I would go around "healing" family members when they got sick and fixing up teddy bears and such.

Growing up i did a lot. My mom's a doctor so we had stuff in the house all the time. I would also take my own blood pressure as a teen.

Yes, I used to play doctor a lot as a kid and I'd use the stethoscope from the fisher price kit. It was really good for a toy stethoscope. As a teenager I got my hands onto a real stethoscope which was a lot of fun.

Im sure we played doctor to some extent but it didn't dawn on me I would have a fetish for med.

I have played doctor a lot as a kid. I had a doctor set as well. I still remember, the toy stethoscope had a red cord and was blue on the other end. It was did not look like today's real stethoscope but had a conical end.

Whatever it was I still liked it. I used to check my friend's "tummy" with it before "tummy operation".

I had a play stethoscope that i used to play with.

We played with the toy doctor kid when we were little. Once when I was about 11, my friends dad found a real stethoscope and we were allowed to play around with it one day. Don’t know what became of it after that.

I remember having a toy one-but I could actually hear my heart through it. Even as a child, I remember listening to my breathing and heart after going to the doctor and getting excited by the whole experience

We had a real stethoscope in kindergarten. I had a lot of chances to examine a couple of girls there. I guess this was the beginning of my fetish.

Had a couple of toy stethoscopes when I was REALLY little but when I was about 11 or 12 I started playing with a real stethoscope that we happened to own a LOT.

We did, we had an actual one that for some crazy reason my cousin gave us as a gift and it was real. This was in the 70s. I guess she thought I'd be a doctor one day, haha. We used to play with it but never had the Fisher price kit or anything.

Yeah, many times. My parents (though I didn't realize it until I was old enough to put two and two together) also had a medical fetish and had a whole box full of medical tools - including some good ones - in their bedroom closet. I used to get into that regularly. And, as kids, we always had play doctor kits.

We had a real stethoscope with a blood pressure cuff and I remember playing with it many times. I also liked to play doctor with a girl, she lived in our neighborhood. One time I took our stethoscope and listened to her heart and she listened to mine. It was very nice.

Its not a real experience but i didnt want to make a new topic for this. so i post it here.

as an educator i had a further education the last 2 days. it was really cool and we did alot of group work. yesterday we had to discuss something in a small group and they gave us a bunch of books for this. 1 book was very huge and contained many topics and how you can teach them to children in the age from 3 to 12.

practictal tips, tips for approaching and so on.

during lunch break i looked through the book and noticed a fairly large part about „body and health“ while i looked through this topic i gasped.

it contained a few sites with the topic „inner organs“ and 1 site was a worksheet which you can copy and handout to your students in elementary school. it had several tasks. some of them had to be done with a partner. and one of this partner tasks said: „your body has alot of hidden organs that you cant see. but you might be able to hear them. take a stethoscope and listen thoroughly to the body of your partner. which organs can you hear?“ est. time for this task 20 minutes.

i sad there open mouthed and shocked. i imagined how it would have been when i was in 3rd grade or so. and had to find a partner, then getting a stethoscope with the task to listen to each others body. i mean getting a stethoscope with the task to listen to each others heart for 2-3 minutes is one thing. but sitting there while my partner listens from my throat, over my chest to my belly. fully concentrated for the slightest tad of sound for 10 minutes... i would have died right on the spot.

I actually did had a play stethoscope as a child and I can remember that I most of the time used it to listen to my own heart beats, my that's what triggered the fetish inside me...

I actually did had a play stethoscope as a child and I can remember that I most of the time used it to listen to my own heart beats, my that's what triggered the fetish inside me...

I think it probably helped me get my fetish also when I played with a Fisher Price stethoscope as a kid with my female cousin and I listened to her heart and belly and she to mine.

i sad there open mouthed and shocked. i imagined how it would have been when i was in 3rd grade or so. and had to find a partner, then getting a stethoscope with the task to listen to each others body. i mean getting a stethoscope with the task to listen to each others heart for 2-3 minutes is one thing. but sitting there while my partner listens from my throat, over my chest to my belly. fully concentrated for the slightest tad of sound for 10 minutes... i would have died right on the spot.

Envious of anyone who got to go through that with a real stethoscope as a child, listening to each other fully with a proper stethoscope deeply all over and then you in reverse over them!

The fisher price stethoscope started my fetish, then a bit later I got a yellow one that was still a toy but really worked. The only time I remember using it on someone else was when my mom's friend's daughter came over one day when I was maybe 5

Never had one as a kid but a few friends had the fisher price doctors kit and when ever I had the chance i would make a bee line for it and want to get the stethoscope out, got to play doctor a few times with them.

Technically I didn't play but was played on with the stethoscope😃 My doctor set had a red and white stethoscope. Though it was a "doctor's set" and it was mine, I always liked being the patient. I would just lie on the bed and the 'doctor' friends (the girls or the boy) would examine me, placing stethoscope on my chest a few times as I took deep breaths. My top would almost always be raised because the girls (acting as doctor and nurse) liked it that way for 'full chekup'. Even the boy would want to check me before the 'operation' so he would also have my top raised and place stethoscope a few times on my chest.

I recall another incident, this time with a real stethoscope. This time I heard my heartbeat.

Once in school my friend had to act as a doctor in fancy dress. His dad's friend was a doctor. His dad borrowed the spare stethoscope. I still remember how excited my friend was. He called me over phone telling me about the stethoscope. I went to his place. There first I heard my heartbeat, then we heard each other's. I think I was 6 or 7 year old at that time. We did raising our tops like we used to play with the toy stethoscope.

We didnt have one "lying around the house" ... but phantasy is big when playing as kids 😃

but at real doctor visit this "thing" was interesting indeed ...

I received a real stethoscope as a present as a kid - notionally because I said I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up. It got a lot of use when playing doctor. I remember it being kind of magical to be able to hear your own heart beat or that of a friend.