LADIES - Frog leg position

Only during a medfet session with someone who lacked a proper place to do an exam with stirrups - not anything I'd submit to again. Unless...for a quick something or other if it was insisted upon. Not for anything prolonged. Very uncomfortable.

My significant other and I attend appointments together, including our annual physicals. Our internist (GP for those of you in Europe) performs her genital exam with her in the frog leg position. After her abdominal exam, she is asked to put her knees up, put her feet together and let her knees fall apart. The doc then dons gloves and gives her a fairly thorough external genital exam, inspecting and palpating her labia majora, labia minora, urethral meatus and introitus. She also retracts my gal's clitoral prepuce, but does not touch her clitoris.

Her PAP and bimanual/rectovaginal exams are left to the GYN, but our doc does perform a rectal exam, with my SO in the left lateral decubitus position.

@Deviant1 got it mostly right, but left out that I'm still wearing my panties at this point. Our doc simply asks me to pull them off when she's done with my abdominal exam. I can forgive the omission, because his brain is clearly addled by blood flow going to another area during my exams. 😉

@Deviant1 got it mostly right, but left out that I'm still wearing my panties at this point. Our doc simply asks me to pull them off when she's done with my abdominal exam. I can forgive the omission, because his brain is clearly addled by blood flow going to another area during my exams. 😉

Yes, well, what would you expect? I mean, I am a man, after all.

I always had to do the frog at my pediatrician

My GP asks me to do for frog leg position when I have a pap smear. This is the only position she asks for last 10 years.

Dumb question here - Is the “Frog Leg” position the same as the “Diaper” position?

Dumb question here - Is the “Frog Leg” position the same as the “Diaper” position?

I've never heard of the ‘Diaper Position.’ But here in the UK stirrups are rarely used during internal vaginal examinations or pap-smears. Instead women are asked to bring their knees up until their feet are flat on the bed, then relax their knees and let them fall apart. This is general considered the ‘Frog's Leg Position’ particularly if the woman's feet are close together.

Dumb question here - Is the “Frog Leg” position the same as the “Diaper” position?

No, the “frog leg position” and “diaper position” are not the same. The “frog leg position” is described very well by Dr Philip in his post and the “diaper position” usually means lying on your back with your legs up in the air (the same position you would use to … well, change a diaper … or maybe take someones temperature)

@Anna_Lena @drphil

Thanks. I had a slightly different vision that they were very close to the same thing. I won’t croak about this again 😀

In pediatric setting yes never at the gynecologist. If your gyn office doesn't have stirrups I would be very surprised. Ultimately stirrups provide better access for procedures but also more comfort for the patient.

Say when they have a table that does not have stirrups.

The “frog leg“ position is by far the most common position used for intimate examinations of females in the U.K. This is principally due to stirrups, knee cradles etc. not being used in the typical GP setting. As such most women in the U.K. will be very familiar with the “frog leg” position or similar and less so or even not all with stirrups etc.

I had maybe 2 instances in which this position was used: once at the urologist that didn't have a table with stirrups, and two, when getting a wax down there some estheticians prefer that position.

My girlfriend received her genital exams in the frog leg position growing up at the pediatrician, usually she was laying down the doctor asked her to remove her panties while she put on gloves, she then helped her put her legs into position and did a brief exam of pubic hair growth and just briefly spread her labia open. After she started having sex when she was 19-20ish with me, she saw her moms pcp for a full gyno exam in stirrups.

In France, the examination tables used in gynecology are systematically equipped with stirrups in which the patients wedge their heels.

Among specialists in obstetrics and among those who have a significant endocavitary ultrasound activity, there are rather leg rests that support the bend of the knee.

The position of the frog is therefore reserved in the rarer cases where the gynecological examination is carried out in a general practice.

In the same way, indeed, it is the position that the beauticians ask for the practice of the depilation of the integral pubic zone.

Yes, during my annual physical

Never at the gynecologist. Only at the GP office, if he needs to check my genitals.

Never at the gynecologist. Only at the GP office, if he needs to check my genitals.

I'll bet the view is awesome! 😉

Maybe men talking about themselves can post somewhere else. This is a GYNECOLOGY topic. It is about LADIES!

I've never had to do that. My exams were always in stirrups. I don't even know if I could get in stirrups anymore.

I certainly wouldn't be able to do a frog leg position now because I'm having too much pain in my left knee. I could do a half frog leg. Then the doctor wouldn't be able to get in there to see or do much.

I always feel like I missed out on something in life because I have never experienced this. It seems to be such a prominent memory for some. I think I’m jealous. FOMO is real.

Yes all my pediatric exams. I had to lower my bent legs to the side as my pediatrician examined my vagina. He didn't penetrate me but he did gently part my labia open.

Only three posts earlier, another moderator posted a notice to male members asking them not to discuss their own examinations on Gynaecological Examination threads - yet she deleted a further one yesterday, written immediately after her notice, followed by a second one today, and I've just deleted another one now.

It should be easy to see when a discussion is aimed squarely at female members, when it's located in the Gynaecological examination area of the forum, when the thread is tagged Gynaecological exams, and especially when it is populated with posts from women.

Male members are welcome to create corresponding threads for males where applicable, but please allow female members the room on their threads to discuss the questions intended for them. Just let them share their experiences without interference. And let's leave out the crude jokes aimed at getting cheap laughs in threads like this one.

Just use your brains. Please, guys!

Ty both @Amethyst and @DrZ its appreciated

(pls nobody be mad at me I have a vagina this thread is definitely applicable to me)

(pls nobody be mad at me I have a vagina this thread is definitely applicable to me)

@cal1082 Yeah we know, thank you. It is ok if you post on these topics.

For some reason I much prefer the frog leg position. Maybe because this is the way I was examined mostly when I was younger. Stirrups are only used in hospital or specialist clinic settings in the UK and I associate those with pain

And the only times I was put in frog leg was during labor when the nurse was checking effacement.

@Nurse_Phillips I did not know English used “effacement” as an obstetric term. (It means literally “erasure”, and may be used when something vanishes… as the cervix does, temporarily.)

@Nurse_Phillips I did not know English used “effacement” as an obstetric term. (It means literally “erasure”, and may be used when something vanishes… as the cervix does, temporarily.)

Yes that’s how it’s used - describing the stage the cervical opening is at prior to delivery

Only during a play doctor physical. I’m in stirrups for my doctor.