Do your kids know about your stethoscope(s)?

For those who have children at home--do your kids know that you have a stethoscope or stethoscopes? Have they shown interest in them? Have they listened to their own or siblings/cousins/friends' hearts? Have you listened to your childrens' hearts?

Our family is full of people in medical feild.

My papa is a physician ,my grandad is a physician , my five cousins are into medical feild and three aunt are OR nurses And I am in first year of medical college. When i was little I never listned to anyones heartbeat but i used to wear my grandad's labcoat and his stethoscope around my neck and run around the house saying "I ll be the doctor when I grow up"

My 6 six year old nephew is on the same steps, I was in hospital from past two months dealing with issues. When I finally came home my nephew wanted to play "doctor-doctor" with me. Which I denied, But when my nurse comes in takes my vitals,meds and physiotherapy . He imitates her after she is gonne. He comes in wearing my labcoat takes my pulse and listnes to the Heart.From very little age he showed intrest in medical feild. He can give you a very impresive lecture on working of heart !

~cookie

I never imagined anyone would be embarrassed or concerned about anyone in the family knowing they had a stethoscope. It's about as innocuous a medical instrument as you can get.

At worst, you could say you use it with your blood pressure cuff when taking your blood pressure. Everyone is concerned about blood pressure these days.

I bought a stethoscope years ago and still use it now. My wife has listened to my daughters chest a few times when she has had a cough / cold. Usually prior to taking her to the doctors.

Seeing as how I was a paramedic prior to the birth of both my girls, then became a lab tech, then a nurse, stethoscopes have been hanging and lying around my house since before they were born. I think they were born playing with them lol. Actually they have really never showed any interest in them. Over the years I have had catheters, syringes, cath bags, IV supplies, and anything and everything you can imagine a nurse would use laying on counters, tables, dressers and whatever and my kids don't even notice them. They are just used to seeing that sort of stuff all the time. To them it's no different than seeing a pair of socks on the floor. They just walk over those too, lol. Grrrrr

Mashie

I never hid my stethoscopes away as such but kept them away from the prying eyes of visitors. As my daughter and I both have Cystic Fibrosis and she has got older they are left lying around more often . Since the nurse has been visiting me at home 3 x daily for the last two months or so I've been much more lax in leaving medical equipment lying about . Mainly in my own en-suite . The girls go in there often enough but they never really question me about things. They are at an age now where if they did ask I'd be honest and say to them they are for my personal use .

They know we all have things that are private and they accept that .

Mashie i am sure any male of adult age will sure notice a catheter laying out haha.

Be embarrassed about having a stethoscope at home? I don't think so. It's a tool of my trade. Did my son know about it? Of course. Was he interested in listening to anything with it? Not even a little bit! He became a mechanical engineer. Did I listen to his heart and lungs? Of course! Did it get me off? Nope!

Yes to all. When my children were home I let them check out my EMS equipment. The stethoscope and penlight really fascinated them.They would brag to their friends and have them come over to see the stuff. My kids quickly lost interest with their plastic Dr kits when they could see the real thing.Unfortunately, neither of them followed in the EMS profession. 😢

Lol.

"Everyone is concerned about blood pressure these days."

It's so true and it's such a great excuse.

Yes of course!

My daughter has been interested in the medical stuff ever since she was very little and we had to drag her with us to doctor appointments since we didn't have anyone to leave her with( family really far both husband and I, don't like asking for help to friends and don't like using baby sitters as they are ultimately strangers). She loved doctors and they loved her. Every time we would have to go to a follow up (cancer requires lots of those) with my husband, she asked us to take her too. Countless times in order to get her to behave we would say "you only get to come if do this or that".

Years passed by and now she says she wants to be a doctor (hopefully it will stick with her for the future). My husband and I got her a real sthetoscope so she can hear heart beats and inside sounds, blood pressure cuffs, microscope and everything that comes with it. She has the most fun seeing bacteria, blood and mouth cells.

That's just for my child to play with. We actually never use her real "toys" for our "play".

We have our own 😃