How long did your mom or dad keep thermometer in when they took your rectal temperature?

When your mom or dad took your rectal temperature how long did they keep thermometer in. Did they ever take it out to read it then say they have to put it in for longer

Same as in the doctor’s office, about 5 minutes.

3-5 minutes. I can remember her telling me to watch the second hand on the old analog clock by her bed and then tell her when it had gone around 5 times

Five long minutes, which always seemed not long enough.

Once the thermometer was inserted I had to keep be still lying for full five minutes and wait for it to register. When I was a young boy, I thought those minutes the thermometer had to register, were the longest of my life…

They kept it in the correct length of time!

Never had it taken by a parent but when I have it taken as an adult it’s left in for quite awhile if it’s a glass thermometer

Typically five minutes. Mom would hand me an old Benrus alarm clock and tell to time five minutes. Then off she went to either prepare my impending enema (underwear removed) or do something elsewhere in the apartment (underwear around my knees). More often than not I’d have to sing out to remind her that the time was up. (I learned very young to remain still while the thermometer was inside me.)

My mom kept the thermometer in for 5 minutes

Usually mom kept inside between 3 and 5 minutes as this is the standard time for the glass thermometer to register. However if she was not satisfied with the reading, just shook it down and the process repeated.

2-3 minutes in my case. I only had it immediately retaken once, when the thermometer showed no fever despite how obvious it was that I had one.

Always 10 minutes.

My Mom left it in for 5 minutes, timed with a kitchen timer.

Always for 5 minutes. An egg timer was mostly used.

3 to 5 minutes was the norm at our house as a kid.

Mom: I guess it took 5 min

Dad: longer, because he removed midtemp one or two times

Ped: no clue, but I would say as long as my mom did

Grandad used to take my temp, he would leave it in for a few minutes, check it, then put it back.

I’d guess 5 minutes. I don’t remember it being taken out and back in for rectal.

That happened sometimes with oral though.

I don't ever recall having my parents do that to me as a kid. I sure did receive enough bare bottom spankings as a kid growing up!

Dad or Mom always 5 minutes briefs down had to lay still while it was in me. Several times had the shakedown and reinserted if it didn't register right. A few over the lap ones too when older in the living room before bedtime. Always an enema was prepared if I had a fever.

Yes there are several times in my childhood where my mom after taking a thermometer out we had to be take the temperature again because she didn't think it came out right.

My siblings and I it was house rule 5 minute rectals.

Do not remember how long they kept it; felt like forever. But I remember one time my mom was about to release me but said" oh, it's still rising, you'll have to wait ".

I never timed it. We had one TV in the living room. So if I were sick I would usually be in the living room watching TV or in the bedroom. If my sister was home sometimes mom would tell her to hold the thermometer in me if she was cooking or busy doing something. If I was watching TV I can remember if it was put in during a commercial it may not get taken out until the next commercial. That is if mom was busy. Because I can remember her walking in fast and taking it out as if she forgot. Now if she was doing it all it didn't seem like it lasted very long only like 3-4 minutes. She always felt my head first. She never asked me to hold it in my sister. Hmmm I wonder why? I remember her coming in the bedroom to take my sisters and her telling my sister to hold it in and she would be right back. My sister is two years older than me. She was always Miss Pris and I was the rowdy tomboy. I still remember mom yelling at me if I was running from the bathroom to the living room to watch TV. She would yell stop fanning around you will get sicker and your temperature will go up.

Mom's rectal thermometer was always in for 5 full minutes, while we ware face down (and pants down!) across her bed or our own beds If we were seriously ill, it was taken in our own beds. If mom ever felt a warm forehead, even in high school or college, out came the rectal thermometer and Vaseline and down came our pants!

My parents used a digital thermometer, it made a beeping sound when it was done reading. So they held it in until it made this beeping noise.

Mine was just taken today and it was in me for 5 minutes and it was 98.2.

Always at least for 5 minutes…

My mom would always do a couple of things at the same time so she would insert it and then go do something else and it would always take for ever!

Usually between 3 and 5 minutes. My mother would sometimes leave my bedroom and go do something else. Once she completely forgot me and I spend at least 20 minutes with the thermometer in my bottom.