I always hated it and it was always very embarrassing.
It was almost always the same procedure.
My mom could see I wasn't well and then she felt my forehead and said I was warm.
Then sometime, only sometimes, she got a thermometer that you just put and hold on your forehead.
Don't know if it was a good thermometer or not, but I was always disappointed after this, because I sometimes thought: OK, she know I'm a little sick but I'm not so very sick. And I will just tell her that I'm fine when she asks my if how I feel.
So I when she asked me, I always said I was fine.
But she could see I wasn't so fine so it always ended they same way. She said: I'm going to take your temperature.
Just hearing that made me sick. I knew what was coming, and I didn't like it.
I stood there and watched my mother get the thermometer from the bathroom.
I always hated seeing the thermometer. It was in some blue box (the thermometer).
When I saw she took the thermometer, I knew my "fight" was over.
She put Vaseline on the thermometer (a lot) and then she told my to lay down.
I was always on my stomach and hated when she took down my pants and underpants.
She was very gentle and nice, I just hated to laying there showing my asshole and getting a thermometer up there.
It also felt like forever, when I laid there.
Like someone else wrote here, I also felt it was so embarrassing when she took the thermometer out and checked how high my fever was.
Then she always told me how high my fever was.
Then she took my temperature 3 or 4 times over the day and I also can remember that if I didn't have a fever at the evening, it didn't stop her to take my temp again in the morning, just to be sure I was still OK and could go to school.
So sometimes it happened, that I woke up with her in my room telling me that she's going to take my temp.
I remember how glad I was if I still didn't have fever. Then I could go to school and get some rest from getting this stupid thermometer up my ass.
So I will say I always felt embarrassed and actually just hated this. But I didn't feel like a baby. It was very normal to take a temperature in the rectum at this time, and almost everyone did it.