Breast exams in adolescence

Age 18, 36B with a male doctor and a nurse in the room. I knew it had to be done but it was still embarrassing.

I don’t remember ever having an actual exam, but dr looked at breasts when I started developing. I remember once the dr commenting that it was time to start wearing a bra

I remember exams in school, weight and height in our blue PE knickers and a visual inspection down below. Also the male Dr commenting to Matron (it was a boarding school) that it was time I got a training bra. So embarrassing but he was right!

the male Dr commenting to Matron (it was a boarding school) that it was time I got a training bra. So embarrassing but he was right!

@JodiFranks Since you were away at a boarding school, did the school provide the training bra, and perhaps fit you for it ?

I was under the impression that standard practice is for doctors or nurses to use breast exams to teach and encourage breast self-exams to girls in their late teens. The idea is that the breast self-exam is a skill that every woman should practice throughout her adult life. Is that correct about teaching the self-exam?

I went through a period when I was thirteen that I had hardened breasts. I remember my mom reading an item about it in the newspaper, possibly Lawrence E. Lamb, an MD who answered questions readers sent in. It was just a temporary condition, thankfully.