Did anyone get a gown at the pediatrician?

Did you get a gown at the pediatrician?

If you weren't given a gown, were you just in your underwear?

For girls were you able to keep your bra on (until the doctor needed to use the stethoscope, or do a breast exam) or did you have to remove it at the beginning before the doctor even came in?

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Back in the 1960's and 70's neither myself, my sister or cousins ever saw a gown at the pediatrician.

Back in the 1960's and 70's neither myself, my sister or cousins ever saw a gown at the pediatrician.

My experience was exactly the same -- no gown for me ever. And I grew up in the same time frame in the 60's and 70's. The very first time I was ever given a gown was at one of my first "adult" exams. I was probably 19 or 20.

Never had a gown growing up. My family doctor always undid my pants himself and checked what he needed.

At a dermatologist appt last week, the nurse was prepping me for a quick mole removal on my back. She had a good sense of humor and jokingly said, "do you even want a gown?"

I think I was 13 before I got a gown.

A few let me keep my bra on, but most had me topless from the start of the exam

In France gowns don't really exist for exam, we were used to be exposed during pediatric exams.

I never saw a gown until I was close to 30. I still discard them.

I was born in 1970 and NEVER had a gown at the pediatrician. No matter the reason for the visit, the protocol was always the same -- strip to your underpants.

I never had a gown at the pediatrician. Almost always was instructed to strip down to my tight whities...even for my pre-college physical.

Did you get a gown at the pediatrician?

NO

Did you always get one or did you start getting one at a certain age?

Never

If so what age?

N/a

If you weren't given a gown, were you just in your underwear?

always undress as it went on

For girls were you able to keep your bra on (until the doctor needed to use the stethoscope, or do a breast exam) or did you have to remove it at the beginning before the doctor even came in?

N/a

I've never been given a gown to wear at all, not when I was young, an adolescent, an adult or even now. I think I was too young in the US before the practice became de rigeur over there. And in Europe I have never encountered the practice at all.

There was only one exception and that was prior to being taken into the OR for surgery. But I'm going to surmise that wearing a gown for (major) surgery is not what the question was about.

At our GP growing up we never had to removed our clothes and put on a gown. We only removed clothing that was necessary for the exam. Usually we removed our shirt or T-shirt for auscultation and a quick abdominal exam.

Even now in the UK , you don't get a gown as a child or adult. You only have to remove clothing necessary for the physical exam to occur. The only places that you are required to wear a gown are A&E, some outpatient clinics, and as an in patient on the HDU or ITU.

I don't think gowns had been invented yet.

I never got a gown, tihty whities only while waiting for the dr. we need more woman to respond to this

I don't remember ever having a gown when I was a child. If some especially sensitive listening to my chest were required, I'd take off my shirt. Even with a rectal temp, I would pull down my slacks and shorts and hop up onto the table.

I did not get a gown until I was like 13. I kept my bra and panties on the whole time. She only looked real fast under my bra and panties. Before that I was just in panties. When I was 17 and wanted on birth control pills I knew what to expect. It was sort of funny because my sister was with me. The nurse who had been there for years gave me the gown and said okay go ahead and get undressed. It was funny because I left my bra and panties on and my sister noticed and told me everything had to come off. It was one of those things that you had to be there for it to be funny.

At the peds, never and as an adult, never at my PCP, until I started with a new one recently.

Never heard of them at the peds.

Only Once, When I was 12. I had food poisoning and had to put one on so the doctor to examine my abdomen.

When I was young enough to go to the pediatrician, I never wore a gown for exams. My usual underwear was a Union suit. (Old fashioned parents) in winter it had long sleeves and legs. The upside was I didn't get cold. Anyway, the nurse just had me unbutton the front all the way down the front which gave the doctor plenty of access to what he needed to touch. For injections they just unbuttoned the rear flap and exposed my bottom. In warm weather I wore a light weight cotton suit that was sleeveless and knee length so access was the same. Now my sister wore the same kind of underwear and it worked the same for her. Maybe other kids in more modern under garments were offered gowns but I don't think so. The first time I ever wore a gown was in the hospital when I was six.

No I was just in my underwear. Never received a gown.

They always gave me two choices every time I went. It was either sit there and wait with just your underwear on or everything (including underwear) comes off and you were a gown. The first thing the doctor said when he walked in the room was always lose the underwear if you went that way or lose the gown. I asked him why he did that when I was older and he said they just always got in the way.

No gown, just my knickers up to the age of 14

Nobody got gowns at the pediatrician. You undressed to your underwear.

I never got a gown at the pediatrician and to my knowledge none of my friends did either, always just underwear. I think it's becoming more common now but back when I went they weren't used.

In the 50s and 60s? Never. Even at the doctor's in the 70s and 80s, no. I think it started with the woosification of America around the turn of the century.

Never ever a gown at the GP surgery in the UK, just strip down as necessary.

Mostly everyone that I knew growing up went to the pediatrician until at least eighteen years of age. That being said, gowns were never offered to patients, regardless of age or gender.

Never got a gown at the pediatrician. I was always told to "strip to the waist" by the nurse, and when the doctor was ready to do the abdominal exam, I was told to lie down on the exam table and he would undo my belt, unfasten and unzip my pants, and do the abdominal exam maneuvers. After that (until puberty at least) he had me stand in front of him (at which point my undone pants would slide down) and either stick his hand inside my underpants to do the hernia check or pull the waistband of my underpants out and down slightly to do the check. When I was 12 (and Mom was not in the room for the first time) he pulled my underpants down to my knees himself.

Started getting gowns as an adult, usually told something like "you need to get undressed, everything off, and cover up with this." Once, I was just given a paper sheet and when the doctor (male) did the genital exam he said "just put that down for a second" so I was completely naked for a few seconds. One year I had broken my arm before my physical and that year I did not have a gown or my shirt on, and was told to "drop my pants and underwear" for the genital and rectal exam, so I was nude down to my ankles in front of the doctor (female.) Turned on, of course--I don't know how I suppressed an erection that time. For the physicals given by my current doctor (female), she makes a point of telling me to get undressed but "leave your undershorts on" and put on a gown. She then tells me to "pull my undershorts down" and pulls the gown up for the genital exam, has me roll on my side for the rectal, and then she gives me a box of tissues. During one genital exam one year she could see I was getting an erection and she very deftly wrapped the edge of the gown around my penis to cover it and completed the genital exam. I find the gown adds a modesty/embarrassment edge to the process, but in playdoc situations I don't go for a gown.

Never had a gown

Without bra for auscultation, just in underwear (except for the annual check up, without it)

I never got a gown at the ped's. One appointment, I was waiting for so long in my underwear that I decided to look through all the drawers. I found a drawer full of gowns, but they never offered them to me or my brother.