No pants at the pediatrician

I had a couple exams when they asked me at some point to lower my briefs: once to feel my testicles (and perhaps other things I don't recall), once to check if my foreskin retracted properly.

I've had two doctors during my youth. I don't quite remember the first one that much. He was male, and I've had him as a doctor from like 7-13. Although I remember him pulling down underwear slightly to check for hernia, I never had to remove them.

The second one was female, and I've had her as my doctor from 14 until I went to college. Her house was her workplace, and one of the room was converted into a waiting area, and had an office, which served as an examination room. The exam room had wood panels, a large wooden desk with a bookcase, an exam table (I remember green) with wood paneling on the sides. Everything was very 80's. (I think I googled her name once long time ago, and I found a webpage once, I think it is gone now) The place was mostly a one lady operation, but there was a nurse there sometimes working.

I remember seeing her 4 times for my annual sports physical, and few more times in between for skin infections and illness.

When a doctor called me in, she told me to strip to the skin, regardless of what I was there for and went through the BP/height/weight and the entire examination in my birthday suit. When a nurse called me in, I did the BP/height/weight in underwear only, but she told me to take off my underwear before she left to go get the doctor.

At the pediatrician's, I undressed to my panties for the examination. At the end of the examination, my mother always "reminded" the doctor to check my genitals as well. When I was younger, the doctor would lower my panties to my knees, when I was older I did it myself.

On the other hand, at the dermatologist's, I was completely naked for the examination

Up until I was taken in by my adoptive parents at age 11 I had not seen too many doctors and those interactions with health care providers were often rather unpleasant experiences. From age 11 on I had yearly physical exams by a family practitioner. Although I was hesitant to undress the doctor had a kind and reassuring demeanor and gained my trust quickly. Later on that year after my first exam I had taken Ill and required hospitalization for about 6 days (pneumonia). She came by at least once a day not just to listen to my heart and lungs but to listen to me and to help alleviate my anxiety. (My FPs also did a great job)

At my pediatrician, they did most of the exam with me in only underpants. When the nurse brought my mom and me into the room, she told my mom to take everything off of me except my underpants, and my mom always took that literally by undressing me herself, through age 13. For my exams from 14 through 16, she let me undress myself.

Once I was wearing nothing but underpants, I would sit on the exam table until the nurse came back to walk me down the hall to get my height and weight. When she brought me back to the exam room, I again would sit on the exam table until the doctor arrived. I remember one time it was very cold in the room, and my mom saw me shivering, so she let me put a shirt back on. When the doctor arrived, he wasn't happy with that, and immediately took my shirt off again.

As the doctor would proceed with the exam, he was the one to pull down my underpants for me, and only once, when I was 13, completely remove them, so that I was lying totally naked on the exam table for a skin check. But in all my other exams, up through age 16, the doctor merely pulled my underpants down to mid thigh. Though this was sufficient for him and my mom to see everything, I took some comfort in the fact that I could pull them up quickly if someone else walked in to the room.

The skin check at 13 was the only time I was really nervous, not because the doctor and my mom were seeing me naked, but rather because I had no way to cover up if someone else walked in.

As a young child I had many accidents so that I did not wear underpants' I was in a diaper. So during a medical exam I would strip down to my diaper. My doctor nd nurse knew of my issue so that it was not a issue. In addition, my mom would carry a spare diaper with accesories if I had a accidnet

In my childhood our family doctor often made home visits if i was unwell. My mother would wash me thoroughly and dress me in a clean pyjama top (she didnt feel it necessary to have me in pyjama bottoms or underpants in bed). On arrival my doctor would unbuttom my top and draw back the bedsheets for his examination. Even pre teen i found it extremely embarrassing to being so fully exposed to the doctor and my mother observing my exposure.

Having no more to add to my past comments, I do have to say that just seeing the words “no pants at the pediatrician” is an (instant) TURN-ON for me.

Somehow I picture a waiting room full of naked kids waiting with their mothers to see the doctor. The nurse calls one kid and his mother back, takes the kid’s vitals and tells the mother, “Have him put everything on, including shoes and socks. The doctor will be in shortly.“ An embarrassed kid quickly dresses in front of his mother awaiting his doom.

A visit to our pediatrician was a sure thing we'd be wearing only our underpants from the start.

My parents took me and my brothers to a bunch of different doctors as kids and as teenagers, so there was some variety in the process including regarding clothing. Pretty much always shirt was off. Sometimes we were in underpants from the start. A couple doctors did full physicals with us nude (this was 1970s-80s). One clinic we went to, we were told to remove shirts and “open your pants." Another one, the nurse did preliminaries with us with shirts and shoes off and as the doctor came in he said “pants off, guys.”

I recall going on at least two occasions in the 1950s with my Aunt to a clinic. In the waiting room were other children in various states of undress as they went for tests, weighing and other procedures. I was interested in others and worried about my own possible nudity by turn. I recall an older girl with longer hair wearing her underpants, socks and sandals but nothing else and older, extremely embarrassed, boy wearing just his vest, grey socks and school shoes waiting for ages with his mother at the reception desk with her holding his clothes. I sat there along with the other boys and girls taking a look at what was revealed as we sat in a circle in the waiting room. Im assuming it was done for efficiency and certainly none of the adults seemed to give it a second thought.

Growing up, when I’d go to my Pediatrician, I was never undressed in the waiting room and made to wait there. Whenever I’d go, the nurse would call my name, and then my mother and I would follow the nurse down the hall to the exam room. Once there, the nurse would instruct me to undress to my underpants. This never varied. It didn’t matter if I was there for a physical or a sore throat say, I’d be told to undress to my underpants. I saw the pediatrician till I was 18, last time for a college physical, and it was always the same. My last visit was in 1979. So most of my memories are from the 70’s.

“Dr C ”

what was the age of the kids who were naked with their moms in that waiting room of the clinic ran by the red cross in Mexico ?

how was it performed ? with female nurses ? was was the age of the older kids ?

To “nebag” in message 9

I find funny your relation of exams by a pediatrician in presence of your mom

especially when you said that you could see a smile on the face of your mother when she looked at you lying on the exam table stark naked while the doctor was handling your penis and palpating your testicles at age 13 like if she was proud of your new pubic hairs or even your erection.

I presume that it was a normal feeling for a mother who could notice how her son was growing up, she has no sexual interest to look at your genitals but you were her son and she could see that you were no more a small kid but a handsome boy who had began her puberty.

Pants always came off at some point so privates and bottom could be checked.

“Don C ”

you related your physicals at a pediatrician office until 18 age and even first year of college and you said that the nurse called you and your mother at age 14 but you did not say if at 18 age you were still examined on presence of your mother ?

very often when you go to see a doctor who had seen you since you were a kid accompanied by your mom, the doctor don't consider that the presence of the mother could embarass the boy who would be examined forgetting to tell to the mother that it would be more comfortable for you to be examined alone, it was so casual to have the mother present each year that the doctor did not care about her presence … And in eaerrlier ages it was also logical because the mother could give informations about your health to the doctor…

“Dr C ”

what was the age of the kids who were naked with their moms in that waiting room of the clinic ran by the red cross in Mexico ?

how was it performed ? with female nurses ? was was the age of the older kids ?

Like infant/toddler up to 11 I think was the oldest kid(boy) I remember.

How was it preformed….similar to here in the US..No big changes.

With both male and female nurses…

Oldest kid- He must have been ten or eleven…at ages 8-9 I was considered one of the “big kids” but there were older kids. Like 10 or 11..don't remember seeing any kids older than that.

By “older than eleven”… I mean no pubic hair and or developing breasts.

I guess there was a different day for the older kids (12 and up) to be checked…

Once I reach 15 or so, I’d go inby myself

Thank you @esaterman for commenting on my post. I think a big part of why my mother got so much pleasure from seeing me naked at the pediatrician, and especially when I stripped for her at home and gave her a much longer and fuller view of my pubic hairs and developing penis and scrotum, was that she saw that I WANTED her to get motherly fulfillment from my male nudity. It's natural for a mother to get maternal satisfaction from seeing her son's hairy, sexually maturing boy parts, because that's the way her DNA can be replicated. But the key additional element for my mom and me was the emotional aspect. As I've explained in other posts, my mom was much older than a typical mom and her finally having a son was a "miracle" for her. So, me allowing her to see my penis and testicles, especially once they started sexually maturing and hair was sprouting around them, was an expression by me of love and appreciation to her for being such a loving and devoted mother.

I would almost always strip to my underwear for my physical exams growing up.

From what I recall from the earliest memories up until I transitioned over to a family practician, a trip to the pediatrician would mean waiting with fear in the waiting room. Then, after being called back, the nurse would have us remove our clothes except for the underwear. Getting weighed and the height checked was first and then the vital signs: blood pressure, pulse, oral temperature (one very unexpected rectal temperature when I was ten). After that, more wait time until the doctor came in. Then, he'd do his thing with the stethoscope, feel around our belly and lower abdomen, take our feet and have us push back on his hand, reflexes. I never recall having to remove my underwear until puberty started to set-in and that was something I was NOT expecting. The first genital exam at age 12 was the worst and after that, I accepted it.

From childhood through high school, I was told to strip to my underwear before the doctor came into the examination room. They were only pulled down from when I was around 12--18, for the genital exam. Even though my mother was in the room up until I was around 11, the doctor always blocked her view so she couldn't see me nude, much to my relief.

In my pediatrician's office was a small locker room where the patients had to take off all their clothes. Since the beginning of puberty I felt embarrassed take off all clothes there and started naked.

When I got to my teens the nurse would weigh me in my boxers then the doctor would come in and remove my underwear while I was on the table and continue the exam, most embarassing part was after the genital exam where I would have to do excerise like squat, jumping jacks and push ups

For me, I went to a pediatrician through about age 12. At that pediatrician, my recollection is that my exams were always in the summer, so I was naturally wearing shorts. For those exams, they were generally shirtless but the doc would undo the pants and feel around – never really coming off or being examined naked.

Around 8th grade, the family moved and I ended up with a different doctor that wasn't a pediatrician, and he or one of his PAs did all of my exams for sports and school. Those exams typically followed the pattern of having the nurse do all of the preliminaries with my clothes on (though shoes usually came off first for weighing) and then the nurse telling me to remove my shirt and shorts/pants to my underwear for the doctor. Exam mostly happened in underwear until the very end where I had to drop the underwear, generally to knees, for the hernia, testicle, and penis check. The doc always did that with me standing up; once his PA gave me the physical and had me lying on the table for that part. Had that every year through high school.

I was always told to strip to my underpants straight away, led to get weighted, then wait for the doctor. Once he/she arrived, it wouldn't take too liong before underpants were off as well.

For the majority of my pediatric physical exams, I was always told to take everything off except my underwear. There was one time where the nurse could tell that I didn’t quite feel like getting undressed, so she said that I could leave my shirt and socks on and just take off my pants and that’s what I did. I had gotten my wisdom teeth out a few days prior and wasn’t feeling the best that day. I was also the last appointment of the night and didn’t want to be there in the first place

I was always naked at the doctor till I was 18 and i was always embarrassed being in the room with the doctor my dad and my brother. Then I went to a different doctor 2 years ago and he also made me get naked which I did not expect

@Doctorzacho what were medical examinations like with your rather and your brother? When the time came to remove your underwear with your father in the room, were you prepared for that, or did it take you by surprise? In hindsight, were you thankful that your father was there for this most intimate parr of your life?