Access to a real stethoscope at home when you were a kid?

Did anybody have a parent in the medical field or otherwise have access to a real medical quality stethoscope when you were a kid? Steth from a home blood pressure cuff? Did you listen to your own heart, hearts of siblings or friends?

My mum is a RN so as kids we got her old steth she had when training and got to play with that. I know have 2 of my own and am getting a 3rd when I can afford it for my RN clinicals next year

My dad was a GP. Yes, I played with his tools.

Jds you played with your dad's tool? You lucky dog! Sorry that's a bad joke. Forgive me.

Jds you played with your dad's tool? You lucky dog! Sorry that's a bad joke. Forgive me.

I left that door open. I was wondering who would step on through to the other side.

My parents gave me a stethoscope when I was quite young-a simple double black tube bell type but it was a real instrument. Naturally I listened to kids in the neighborhood, friends, and myself growing up. I'm sure it helped develop my heart fetish!

Definitely a great way to get one is to dress up as a doctor for Halloween and get a real coat and stethoscope instead of some cheap costume.

You can buy a cheap basic nurse's steth that really works (basically made for checking blood pressure) and is more than adequate for kids to really hear their own and other children's hearts for no more than you would pay for a toy that doesn't work or barely works. If you give a child a toy doctor kit, throw away the toy steth and replace it with a basic nurse's steth that you can buy for between 5-10 dollars. It's educational, helps the child learn about his/her insides, helps alleviate fear of the doctor, and the kid could grow up to be one of us.

When I was a kid I had this plastic stethoscope that came with the doctor kit and it had a piece of foam on the chest piece, I always wondered what the doctor was listening for and I couldn't hear anything! Definitely great thing to actually use something that works like the real thing.

Sadly I never had a real steth as a kid. I had to make do with pretend ones. Id usually just use my ear instead haha.

I never had access to a real one as a kid, other than a couple of times in health classes in school. But I did have a toy one that seemed to work pretty well for a toy! I lost it at one point when moving things from my room to the basement and was heartbroken...I never did find where it got to. Doesn't matter now, as I've since upgraded to the real thing. 😉

I never had one at home coz there weren't any doctors or nurses in the family...hence it was all the more exciting to steal a touch of it on the doctor's table when visiting the clinic... I was a healthy kid and didn't fall sick very often but doctors often visited my school for medicals... Sometimes the teacher called one or two of us to help the doctor carry his or her stuff to the examination room and I'd always choose to carry the stethoscope... And also the leather bag if the doctor was a lady...

Then when I'd hand over the stethoscope to her she'd take it and thank me with a light touch on the cheek...and then the best part would be to see her clip it around her neck ready to be used...

Then I'd wait for my turn to get naked and be listened to with the very stethoscope I'd carried... The touch as well as the use of it on my chest was the most exciting experience coz I didn't have a stethoscope at home...

Unfortunately no, but our neighbour was an older lady, who was a doctor, I often visited her, she took care of me when my parents were not at home, she had a black single headed stethy, it was always on her table with an old manual bp cuff, I asked her a few times to play with it, and she showed me where to listen, I enjoyed it very much, but now I often fantasizing about her, and I'm very close to ejaculation just for the though to beeing auscultated by her totally nakedly.

....I enjoyed it very much, but now I often fantasizing about her, and I'm very close to ejaculation just for the though to beeing auscultated by her totally nakedly.

Me too, me too !!! I'm not only very close to ejaculation, I am ejaculatiing right now :-)

Nope, I was not that lucky! But a g/f got me one in my early 20's though when I told her about my fetish!

Most Of The people In My family are in medical feild. My Grandad is a doctor , my cousins are doctors , my three aunts are OR Nurse and luckily My uncle was an MR(medical representative) . So i had an access to real stethoscope when i was a kid. At home We had sphygmamometer , otoscope and sersly a lot of stesthoscopes& many other tools but i was not allowed to touch other things !! I only used to wear my Grandad's lab coat and wear his stethoscope around my neck and roam around the house ... 😃

~Cookie

When I was a kid, I haven't access to a real stethoscope. But I bought my first real stethoscope with 14 years ;-)... I only listen to my own heart at first...

I had access to stethoscope when I was a Kid. My uncle is a doctor and we live in joint family . And i have always played with his steths when he was home and not working. He is our family doctor :p

Some firends of my parent were doctors.

Fortunately, it was easier to go to the toilet close to the cabinet and, once, the door was barely open while everyone was stil eating on the other floor... so I entered the office, pick up a stethoscope and ran to the toilets to try it out.

From then I tried to repeat the experience on each visit... when possible

Yes, when I was younger, I used to take off my clothes to be in my underwear to listen to my heart just like at my doctors.

As a kid l used to watch my mother having her blood pressure taken by a neighbor. She had hypertension but seeing the veins in her forearm popping out made me even more interested. She learned how to take her own pressure and l recall vividly the first time she took my pressure. I was 12 and as soon as the cuff was on my arm my pulse quickened. She took several pressure readings then had our neighbor come and check it. Since only my systolic was high at 150 the diastolic 70. No problem she said. At 19 l was diagnosed with hypertension and placed on pressure pills. I take 3 pressure pills daily

Since only my systolic was high at 150 the diastolic 70.

sphygmogirl your readings are always so hot...... mmmmmm

Was never lucky enough to own one or have access to one until I was an adult. I just used to make do with things that I could make look like one.