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

Most of the time they left it in for at least three minutes. If they wanted to tease me, then they would pull it almost all the way out and then push it back in. That was done several times and they would laugh about it. Meanwhile I was dying of embarrassment.

I still have rectal temperature at times when I am extremely sick can't use oral one. My elder sister keeps for 3 minutes. My mom did the same when she took my temperature as kid if I remember right thing

I noticed in another post someone said usually it was 3 minutes but a time or two their mom left it in longer when they left the room for some reason and it was left in 20 or more minutes. I do recall mom doing that once as a kid when she got a phone call and left to answer it. I also recall many times at the doctor's the nurse would leave a thermometer in way past 3 minutes.

When I was a kid, my rectal temperature was always taken for 3 minutes with the rectal thermometer left in place and not touched. When I began to take my own, I leave it inserted for 5 since 3 seems to feel too short.

Oral 3 minutes Auxiliary 10 min Rectal 5 min

About 3 minutes for rectal temperatures

In the 70s early 80’s mom took our rectal temperature until we were about 7 or 8, then she switched to an oral thermometer unless we were running a high fever. She'd leave it in for 3 to 5 minutes. When we had to go to the pediatricians office it was always taken in the butt until we were about 10. My sister was 3 years older than me, she seemed to always go with mom when I had to go to the doctor. I stopped going with them when she was 12. She was sick one time & nurse told mom she needed to get a rectal temperature on her, mom took me out of the room while the nurse took it .

Nurse 5 minutes

As I often think to myself, “4 minutes that can feel like 4 hours” sometimes and still does!

Mom was a nurse and the Gold Standard was 5 minutes…..

The thermometer case said “1 minute”. Mom applied 3 minutes.

About 5 minutes or so. Longer if she had to leave to chase after one of my brothers or sisters!

Though it's been almost 40 years now since the last time my temperature was taken rectally, I would guess my mother kept the thermometer in my rectum for around 5 minutes. At that point, she would say, “OK, D--, I'm going to remove the thermometer from your tushie now.” (That's what we called it in my family--not butt, not behind, not rear end, but tushie--I always wondered if it was because we were Jewish.) And then she would slowly withdraw the thermometer from my bottom, which as I recall it now, was a truly intense and emotionally charged moment in the temperature-taking, because of the pleasurable feelings it caused. The feeling of the thermometer being almost out, with the pear-shaped bulb right on the threshold of the anus, is especially memorable.

Neither one ever took mine, nurse did twice when I was 3 years old and left in in for about 5 minutes and during that time she moved it in and out some. Beginning of my Rectal temperature fetish

Don't remember. wish I did. wish my aunt had taken my temp. Wish my girl cousins could have watched. all in good fun. Do you have to be sick to get temp taken? Is threat of covid a good enough reason now a days?

It was a nurse at the pediatrician's office and I in previous visits they had always used an oral thermometer. I just remember feeling too old (maybe seven or eight) for this humiliation and it seemed like she kept it in forever. I was further humiliated by my little brother who just giggled watching, not realizing that he was next.

Oh Gosh…whether it was the Dr. on a house call or parentally…it was always 3 minutes…with the time counted down by wristwatch or the plastic kitchen timer sitting on the dresser in my room. When the Dr.did it was 50/50..either with me on my tummy on my bed or the Dr.sitting on the desk chair in my room with either my briefs or p.j.bottoms fully down and across his lap. When he did it the otk way--it was somewhat embarrassing as a 8 or 9 year old..I dreaded any adult seeing me bare butt….there was no way out of it--so I just calmly laid across and gazed up at the kitchen timer waiting for it to “Ding”..

As a young child, it seemed like an eternity. Five minutes and it was not bad laying on the bed but OTK an eternity.

I don’t remember regarding how long the thermometer was left in place, but mom was a believer in Dr. Benjamin Spock so whatever he recommended, I’m sure she followed.

My mom once told me it has to be in for 3-4 Min. So even if it felt way longer I guess she left it in for about 4 Min. Once it was in it remainded inside my butt for the whole time.

It seemed to be at least five minutes. At the pediatrician for checkups, I went with my younger sister until I was 9 and she was 7. I would be on the table with the thermometer in my bottom while my sister got her height weight pulse bp etc measured and recorded. Then the thermometer would be removed from my bottom and I would be told to pull ‘em up and hop down and trade places with my sister. Sick visits were five minutes.

At home most temperature takings were done in the family room so I could watch cartoons, Captain Kangaroo, Electric Company etc. My mother would return to the kitchen while the thermometer registered. She would usually return in five minutes, but from time to time it would be longer if the phone rang.

My mother allways kept the thermometer in three minutes.

But, when I started to take my temperature alone, I quickly realised that one minute gave a good general Idea of the actual temperature I had.

Later, in my twenties, I had a girlfriend who was very much into medfet. She took my rectal temperature every time we were to have sex. She never let me know how long she kept the thermometer in and refused to tell me. I am sure it was more than three minutes But it felt so good as she played with the thermometer, having it go back and forth inside my rectum.

More recently, a few months ago in fact, I had a girlfriend who shared my rectal temperature fetish and we took eachover's temperature on the partner's lap every time we had sex. the length of time was teen minutes. But that was pure greed.

It was all way mum took temp at home and be inserted and timed on her wrist watch full 5mins just same as did on kids hospital wards here in uk

@Nennie Interesting, my mom, I think, would time 3 minutes to avoid risks of such bad measurements.

Seemed like forever

When very young 4 minutes per thermometer manufacturers' instruction.

Sometime in the 60s they changed that to 3 minutes.

Mom and Dad both gave rectal temperatures for 3 - 5 minutes

Rectal temperature 5 minutes, groin temperature 10 minutes with glass thermometer

Long enough for me to beg for it to be taken out! I just remember that it hurt.

I am sure my mother kept the thermometer in my rectum for at least a minute or maybe longer. If I wiggled or fussed too much she would take it out and scold me before she reinserted it. I remember once she was going to take my temp orally but she decided I was not holding it under my tongue correctly so she took down my pants and made me have a "temperature in my bummer"; her words. Even today that phrase is more exciting then the term "rectal temperature".