Position for rectal temperature chosen or imposed?

When your rectal temperature was measured, did the person who measured it (mother, aunt, grandmother) ever make you choose the position or did she always dictate which position to take?

I had a friend who use to take my rectal temperature whenever I was feeling like crap. It was always pants completely off and over her lap, legs spread apart. The first time, I requested to just lay face down on the bed, underwear pulled down just below the cheeks. She didn’t want to bend over and hold the thermometer the whole time, as it easily slipped out. She said it was much more comfortable for her for me to be bent over her lap, even though I was twice her size. I get it and agree. It wasn’t an issue. And I didn’t want to protest out of fear what would have happened…

90% of the time it was on the bed, or exam table, when the thermometer was inserted into my rectum. As I got older, and more “Into” medfet, I would try all sorts of positions.

It was almost always taken with me laying on my bed, that I can remember. Whether I would be on my side or facedown was somewhat arbitrary, though when it wasn't suggested I would default to facedown.

Mom and gram always had me on my tummy, and the doctor's nurse also had me on my tummy. I don't recall anything but my tummy, even the one time, I had an RT in grade school it was on a cot on my tummy.

I’ve been “ instructed” to turn over or lay on my side or stomach or as in a case or two to position myself over the lap of my caregiver for my temperature taking.

I have also been asked at times if the position I was instructed to take was comfortable or would another position be better.

Never forced.

At home my mom had me lay on my tummy on the bed. At the doctor the nurse had me lay on my tummy on the exam table.

I never had a choice, was always over my mom's lap, or told to lay on my tummy on my bed or the couch at home. At the doctors office I was face down on the exam table.

I remember my rectal temperatures were always taken in the diaper change position. Ankles crossed, legs raised, and up my tush that uncomfortable thermometer went. Mom said I was a squirmer, and this is the best position to use for that very reason. I used it taking my son’s rectal temperature because he too was a squirmer. It’s just safer and easier to insert this way.

My Mom always told me to curl up on my left side on my bed with both legs pulled up to my chest whenever she took my rectal temperature, except when I was a baby and she laid me on my back and then pulled both my legs up in the air (diaper position) when she took it.

Regardless of whether my mom, stepmom, or a nurse took my rectal temperature, it seemed I was put on my back and had my feet and legs held up. I remember vividly in the children’s clinic, lying on my back with my legs raised. I could look over and see the thermometer resting on the edge of the Vaseline container printed with cartoon characters.

The stubby bulb of the thermometer already had a dollop smeared on the tip. I learned soon that the sight of it was my cue to start whining. The girl that usually took my temperature stuck it about half way in. It was commonly accepted practice for nurses to insert thermometers up butts more than 2” in the 1970s. Even for pediatric patients.

I resented not being able to move in the diaper position. The thermometer felt really uncomfortable and it felt like she left it up there forever.

I am 70 and I have been having a strong rectal temperature fetish thoughout my life. This thread brings a lot of memories to me.

As a child, my mother tended to be overprotective and she used to take my temperature every time she had the feeling I looked tired or sick, thqt was about every second week. Then, I was on my bed on my stomach. She inserted the thermometer and kept her hands on my buttchecks as it registers. As far as I remember, she never took it on her lap. This lasted til I was 13.

Then, from 13 to 21, I was very shy with girls. I remained a virgin and I took a lot my temperature, often associating it with masturbation.

Eventually, I found a girlfriend at 21. She was very nice and gentle, but she was strongly opposed to rectal temperature. She never took mine and refused that I take hers.

My second girlfriend, from 24 to 28 was just the opposite. She was very much into medfet, and a bit bossy. She had set the rule that every tim time we were to have sex, she would five a comprehensive medical exam, me stark naked, her keeping her clothes on, , allways ending with her taking my rectal temperature on her lap. I must say I enjoyed it a lot.

For me, being on your partner's is the best rectal temperature taking position. I liké to feel my erect penis pushing on her hopefully naked titgh as she plays with thermometer, letting it go slowly back and forth inside my rectum.

More recently, I had a ten years relation with a fascinating ladyfriend who was as much into rectal temperature as me. We had agreed to take our mutual température, everyday, first thing in the morning, and we had a fun with it. Unfortunately, she dumped me almost two years ago and I am on my own to take my temperature. LOL.

Daughters can be so dramatic! Younger dd woke up with a fever and throwing up in the morning after oral surgery to remove two wisdom teeth. That sent me into a minor panic. I got her back in bed and grabbed a rectal thermometer and Vaseline from our medicine drawer. She took one anxious look at me shaking down the thermometer, turned over on her stomach and buried her head as deeply into her pillow as she could. One of those times with my girls that I remember, even years later. I was more anxious that morning than she was.

Parentally--it was done on my bed.Me on my tummy until age 9+.For Dr.house calls..the procedure was more elaborate/official from age 5-9+ the Dr.would sit on the armless desk chair in my room..my p.j.'s and or briefs down to my hips and across his lap..a very full upward flexing of my small buttocks. In either style the thermometer was in for 3 minutes.

I do not remember if I chose the position or if I was asked to. In any case, I got my rectal temperature always taken while laying on the left site with legs a bit bent (especially the upper one), which made my butt stick out a bit. Since I knew this position from home, I also used it for the one time where the nurse took my rectal temperature at the pediatricians.

Whether at home or at the hospital or doctors, I was always instructed to "turn over on your belly like a good little boy". I just accepted it is standard procedure and complied.

I was always on my tummy for it. The only exception I remember, once around age 5, I was in an ER, and the nurse had me stand on the exam table, with my back to her, holding my dad’s shoulders for support. Without warning, I felt my pj bottoms get slid down in back, and a cold thermometer go up my tush. She held the thermometer in place while it registered. Later, my pants got pulled down again for a shot, while I layed on my tummy.

In my earliest memories, I was laid over my mothers lap at the clinic. It seems I was also likely laid over the nurses lap a time or two, but I don’t clearly recall it. As a preschooler, I was instructed to hop up on the exam bed and roll onto my tummy. The nurse would hands-on assist in my rolling over to be sure I didn’t fall off the table. She’d also assist in rolling me back to sunny-side-up when finished.

I was always placed or instructed, never asked.

I couldn‘t remember any occasion where I was give a choice. At home it was always while laying on my side, no matter who was taking my temperature. At the pediatrician it was face down. Also always.

Most of time over my Moms lap or laying on my belly on the bed.Then the big " E" if you had a temp. Lol

Standing facing wall in nurses room. Age 3