Did anyone get a gown at the pediatrician?

Once. After my first doctor retired, my mom took us to the wrong doctor and we got as far as being stripped to our briefs and putting on a gown before being told this didn't doctor didn't take our insurance and so we had to get dressed and go up another floor to the doctor that did.

Never as a kid.

In undies only until those were removed. Always ended up naked by the end. 😬

you're not alone there @GraceT, Same thing happend to me every time I had a visit to my pediatrician. Always had my clothes removed, and ended up naked ALL THE TIME!.

Never had a gown when I was younger.

I always just wore all my clothes until they had to do the genital exam

Never as a kid.

In undies only until those were removed. Always ended up naked by the end. 😬

@GraceT once you developed, were you allowed to keep your bra on until it was time for the breast exam? I know that the pediatrician I went to had girls remove their bras and wait for the doctor clad in just their underwear. Sometimes,when the exam room door was open, you would catch a glimpse of a girl sitting on the table, topless, waiting for the doctor.

I never had a gown. I would just undress piece by piece until there is nothing left.

I never had a pediatrician. We had a GP, Totall srtriped. Girls had their bras rmoved right from the start. Panties off when he told them it was stirrup time. All girls after their periods had started weren given a visible exam every visit. That ment in the stirrups even before a real pelvic exam. He ihsisted Mom brought them back for their first pelvic after age 17. No matter what

At the pediatrician clinic, I never saw or offered a gown during any of my checkup procedures. The first nurse always told me to undress to my underwear-shorts after entering the room. Mom always helped me to undress and folded my clothes on the extra chair. The first nurse then checked my vitals. This always included checking my height and weight on the scales. After this, she always told me to lay on my tummy on the examination table so she could check my rectal temperature. She tells me to turn my head and look at the animal paintings on the wall until the rectal temperature check is done. I then feel her fingers in the waistband of my underwear-shorts as she lowers them to my knees.

After the first nurse is done taking my rectal temperature, and she raises my underwear back up onto my waist and tells me to sit on the edge of the examination table. A short time later, the doctor arrives to the room. She checks my blood-pressure, and then my breathing and heart with her stethoscope. After that she checks my mouth and ears with the lighted scope. The doctor then tells me to remove my underwear-shorts and lay on my back on the examination table. She then does a full-frontal body check head-to-toe. After that, she tells me to turn over and lay on my tummy. She then does a full back-body check head-to-toe. While all these checks were being done, the first nurse is writing on the examination sheet form.

After the doctor leaves the room, the first nurse tells me to remain laying on my tummy. I watch her as she walks over to the counter. While there, she flips a switch on the wall. A few seconds later, a second nurse enters the room. She is holding a tray with a shot syringe and a container of cottonballs. The first nurse then tells me to turn my head and look at the animal paintings on the wall. She then guides the second nurse to administer the medicine to me in one of my bottomcheeks. After this is done, the first nurse tells me I can get fully dressed as she hands mom a prescription for a medicine that I need to take at home.

I also never had a pediatrician, atleast that I remember, being under 5 years old. I do remember having a general practitioner that took care of the whole family. Back then she was able to cover whatever ills we had. Though there usually wasn't much wrong with any of us.

I rarely got a gown. I had a regular pediatrician from 11 until I graduated college. Yearly physicals had me in my underwear only. Mom and Dad were present until I was 14.

I was under the impression that gowns were usually just for the girls that already started their period

I didn't get a gown at my pediatrician. At my only head to toe exam I had to strip down to my briefs and for genital exam my doctor pulled them down to the knees.

I never had a gown for examination at the pediatric. I would strip to my underwear. My sister would not get a gown. Till she was 13 with underwear on underneath.

We never got any gown at pediatrician. I had to strip to my briefs initially and that would also be gone for genital exam, my doctor used to take it off making me totally naked.

However, she has seen me naked since birth and she happened to be my Mom's friend, so never felt embarrassed or ashamed, rather I was more comfortable.

My sisters also never got any gown until they started having periods and breasts started developing.

Never got one, I think here in Germany it's generally very rare to get one

I don't remember anything but underpants

No gown. The nurse would tell my mom to undress me to my underwear each time, even for sick visits.

I only get a gown, when the doctor wants to do a more thorough exam and that has been on rare occasions. Most of the time I just take off what is needed when they need it off.