Odd rectal temperature taking from nowhere by your mom

Did you get your temp taken by suprise, out of the blue at home?

For example: you were playing outside, and when you came back the house, your mother maybe touch your forehead, and says she needs to take your temperature, lay down on your tummy etc. but you didn't said to her you are not feeling well, she just insisted she wanted to take your temperature anyway. Or when you came back from school, and your mom said you are looking pale, so go check your temperature with her.

More example, you ate little, or less than average during dinner or lunch, so your mother ordered you on the bed with your pants down for a temperature taking.

Any similar memories?

My mother was somewhat overprotective and she had a tendency to take my temperature every time she though I looked. tired or sick. This happened about twice a month. And I must say she was often right under those circonstances I did have a temperature and she would call the doctor.

And this lasted, in a way, after she stopped taking my temperature. In my teen years, or even later, as I stayed with my parents as a student, she would, on several occasions, suggest me to take my temperature and , of course, she would then inquire about the thermometer readings.

Thanks for your reply, can you share me a detailed memory, when you didn't feel sick at all, but your mother insisted about the rectal temperature taking?

And if you were healthy, with no temperature, were you angry at her for the needless humiliation?

My mom did that to me once the day we were leaving on vacation. It was way out of the blue. I felt fine. No fever. 🌡️

How she announced that to you and how old were you?

And what was you reaction to that? Especially, if no fever was in picture, I would feel very embarassed.

I remember how I get angry at my mom because of suppositories, but they were indeed was necessary because of my fever.

But how you cope with something so humiliating that is also unecessary?

I grew up in south dakota turned 13 in 71 and this was before that. all the kids had the same local doctor and he did rt to age 13 so it’s all we knew so no embarasmemt. It just how it was always taken. 🌡️

@GertHarren,

As I said, my mother suggested I might have a fever about twice a month at the time when she took my temperature. After she stopped taking my temperature, her suggestion to take my temperature came more seldom, I would say once every second month.

I must say I kind of enjoyed when my mother took my temperature. She was allways nice and gentle and I liked those moments of intimacy. .

For example, if you looked pale, and your mom insisted about a rectal temperature check, but the thermometer said you had no fever, what was your mom reaction to this? I mean, did she say sorry, or looked suprised/confused?

And you said your mother was usually right about sickness. But how was the ratio? Like 10 "out of the blue" temperature taking, and how many times were you really sick without knowing it? 6 out of 10? Or better?

@GerHarren,

I would say me mother was rigth about haif of the time. If she was wrong, she would then be a bitt confused and tried to be nice to me, for instance by cooking my favorite dish. On my part, as I said, I kind of enjoyed those moments of intimacy and I felt released not to have a fever, because if I had one, my mother would call the doctor, my bigest fear then.

@GerHarren This exact scenario happened to me the last time my mother took my rectal temperature at the age of 9. I came downstairs in the morning feeling really lousy. My mom felt my head and it seemed quite warm to her. So she brought the oral thermometer and placed it under my tongue. When it said I had barely any fever at all, she was very skeptical, and told me that we'd best do a second check in my bottom (she would have said "tushy"). I went up to my room, my mom came about 20 minutes later after she'd seen my younger sister off to school, and then the whole ritual began. She was doubly surprised when the RT revealed that I had no fever. I can still remember the feeling of her slowly pulling the thermometer. Little did I know that that would be the very last RT she would ever take on me.

Always at most random times. I’d be playing with my toys or on my computer and mom would announce time for a temperature check down comes my pants or PH’s and my Huggies or Pampers Diaper comes off and my legs lifted and the thermometer inserted into my bottom.

It happened all the time in our house. If we came home from playing with friends, and were hot and sweaty, she would feel our foreheads and send us to our rooms (Or sometimes the sofa)while she got the rectal thermometers. In a few minutes, we would be on our tummies with a thermometer in our butts.

I never had this happen but it's a great play fantasy. The shock and protestations can always lead to a spanking afterwards too 😉

My mother stopped quite early to insert the thermometer rectally herself. However, it's true that if I mentioned a headache, I looked out of sort, "too warm", and so on, she could ask for a temperature check.

I have stated in the past that it was unheard of in the USA for children or even teens to be allowed to take their temperatures or insert their thermometers themselves. Parents would always do it and no child would be allowed to have it done under the covers, it was always done with the thermometer in full view of the parent or nurse. I was born in 1958 and turned 13 in 1971. Lived in the Midwest United States.

While off to the side of the stage at a local park concert summer before last, this woman stopped right next to me, dropped her toddler’s diaper while he was standing between her knees, and stuck a hand cupped digital thermometer right up his ass like I wasn’t even there. I barely saw the thermometer, but I heard the distinct digital beep when it registered. Why would what appeared to be an emergency RT be required? The kid looked a little flushed, but wasn’t fussy, and he acted like it happened often. Perhaps he was born with cystic fibrosis?

It was a totally weird experience, but an awesome one to witness!

@arttemp It may be this lady is obsessive about illness and fever.

I suffered with asthma from age three so got plenty rectal temps often if got infection turn to pneumonia so my mother check my temp often cough or sneeze my pants be off and thermometer up my bum only ever used rectal thermometer until left home at 17

I am not sure if I would call it "by surprise " or "out of the blue", but the threshold for checking my temp was comparatively low. When I looked pale or I had red eyes/ burning cheeks, when I had no appetite and didn't feel well, when I got blue lips after being too long in water (for example after visiting waterpark), so it happened often that my parents took my temperature then. As a child and teen, I knew, when I wasn't feeling healthy, the thermometer will for sure be pushed up my bum, what I conceived it as quite normal. Additionally my bum met the thermometer as well before visiting the pediatrician, so my parents were prepared to report with the latest data of my symptoms and my health status (my dad is a physicist, do I have to tell more^^)