Did anyone get a gown at the pediatrician?

I never got a gown at the pediatrician when I was a kid.

When I was really young, no gown, and my underwear stayed on. I switched pediatricians when I was about 12, and then I got a gown. My bra almost always stayed on, though.

No - first time I got a gown was as an adult.

If I'm stripped down to my tighty whities that's not much less than I wear at a swimming pool. I can see a girl needing a gown but not necessary for guys.

Agree with you there. It's never bothered me being in my boxers for a physical exam, it's just the same level of exposure as when I'm down the beach with my top off and in shorts or at the swimming pool in my trunks.

Like you say, for girls after puberty can sort of understand a gown, but even then in panties and a bra is it any different than being on the beach in a bikini?

Although I never had a paediatrician, only ever going to our family doctor, the odd times they decided to do a more detailed exam, I was asked to strip down to my briefs, never offered a gown and I never felt embarrassed about it.

I don't really remember much of my young years, but during my early teen years, I always was given a gown - leaving bra and underwear on. Sometimes the doctor would take a quick look at breasts and private area, but never touched it.

Kids were never given gowns in my days of the 60s and 70s. Most of my doctor visits were spent with my pants around my knees. At that age it seemed like everything health-wise was connected to a child’s rectum and genitalia, but mostly to the rectum. Kids were treated as more of a medical commodity or livestock than small people in those days. We were talked at, and never talked to. You were to be seen and not heard. Modesty was certainly of no concern to medical professionals as it is today. There’s a good reason the feeling of humility and punishment is part of the RT fetish. Gowns? I’m surprised we didn't have our pants or skirts removed in the waiting room!

In France in the 50's , 60's and even years after I am quite sure that boys ( I can't talk for girls because I have no sisters ) had never a gown when they were examined as children, pre-teen or teenagers or young men, either at a doctor's office (with a nurse or not present no matter) male or female doctor no matter, and either at school physicals examinations in group.

At school, we were allways instructed to strip to briefs only ( no socks nor watches and so on ) or even at high schol sometimes in the nude after removing our brief to enter in the examination room where thre was a female doctor and a female nurse. So I was stark naked to climb on the scale for the weight, and eyes test and all examinations since the beginning, even questions ; it seemed normal, the Pe teacher who supervised us in the locker room gave to us the instruction to strip completely. At middle school, it was in briefs. at a doctor'office, it was also in briefs generally but no gowns even if the mother was present.

So of course even the idea of a gown for boys seemed stupid. They might be naked immediately or when necessary during the examinations and all adults agreed with that situation.

Even as an adult, I was less often undressed at a doctor's office (except for mandatory job physical examinatioins - like at school, it was at least undressed in briefs, and sometimes stark naked depending on doctors and on locations - if there was a cubicle to undress or not)) but I was never offered a gown.

It was only at hospital that we had a gown.

I don't think that it has much changed for the gown today.

Thre are less and less physical examinations at school and the students are certainly not told to undressin groups and never stark naked not even in briefs sometimes ( to be chest bare can be enough) but I am quite sure that even today they don't have a gown.

No

In my Child years i always was Naked and in my Teen Years i was Barefoot with T-Shirt & Shorts and Sometimes in Underwear.

Usually completely bare or just panties until about 13. Sometimes a gown, depending on the doctor, but I was a very late developer, puberty at 15, so even a bra wasn't necessary. Mom was with me at every physical and wasn't too worried about how much I had exposed. It was embarrassing.

Never got a gown at the pediatrician. It was always undressed to underpants - white briefs - for the exam. The briefs came down at the end for the hernia exam.

Never get a gown at my pediatricin, allways have to remove my clothes except for the panties.

I never got a gown at the pediatrician when I was a kid stripped to my underwear.

Gown (naked underneath) until I was 18, then fully naked under a towel. Nurses always protected my modesty.

Never have received gown at the paediatrician. However I used to keep my briefs on usually.

Not that I recall. Shirt off, maybe pants off if needed.

Nope, I can't recall ever wearing a gown as a kid when I was at the doctor. In fact, I was never given a gown in any kind during a medical visit or appointment until an ER visit I had in my 30s.😉

No gown at my pediatrician's office. For all visits you had to undress to your underwear. If you had a physical your underwear came off for the genital exam.

My pediatrician was in another town a few miles away from where we lived, not a great distance, but there were other doctors closer by. When I was in high school I dated a girl who it turned out went to the same pediatrician. The subject came up around the same time we both had to go for sports physicals. It was fun hearing about her exam - undressed to bra and panties and agin both off when it came to the chest auscultation, and then genital exam.

I had to strip down to my underwear and my socks nothing else. Of course when I was younger underwear came down for the thermometer also.

It was in the 70s/80s when visited the pediatrician, I never got a gown.

I usually was asked to strip down first to my underwear by the nurse and waited for the doctor on the exam room.

Then he asked me to remove everything.

Never had a gown,just in underpants,these were pulled down and I was asked to cough .

Never. Got a gown first time as an adult. Always had to strip to briefs for whatever reason I was at the doctor, sick or for a physical. Last time stripping that far down was at 11 for my 6th grade school physical. Didn't go to the doctor again until I was sixteen. I went to my pediatrician for that but only had to take off my shirt to start. From then on it would just be shirt off to start then told to drop pants and underwear for the standing genital exam.

Never in the doctor's office. Just stripped to my briefs. Gown always in the hospital as a child, though.

At my pediatrician, I was allowed to wear my bra, panties, and socks under a gown. The gown was removed by the doctor, and the bra and panties were simply moved when the doctor needed to access a covered area.

Always nude at Start

Until 12...nude from start

12-17...boxers/briefs for weight; nude for exam

18-22...boxers only until pulled down for brief genital exam and rectal check

I wasnt Given a gown until I was 17. Prior to that I was Examined only in my underwear.

Never had a gown at the pediatrician, i was Always nude from start

No. All the exams I can remember as a child were carried out with me stripped to my underpants to begin with.

At my pediatrician's office there was never a gown. We had to undress down to underwear, and when the nurse concluded all the preliminary stuff we were told to remove our undershirt. Most of the exam was conducted in underpants only, until the end, when they had to be pulled down. I was in the hospital once and was given a gown. Everything had to come off and the gown put on with the opening to the back.

I don't know what whack-a-doodle doctors you all went to but it just doesn't seem normal to me. It just seems way more invasive - especially for a child..

What do children know about health issues? How would they know if anything is wrong or not unless a trained physician can ascertain so by looking?

Modesty should take a back seat, way way down the aisle in the bus, when it comes to health issues. Preferring possible disease, ill-health or whatever kind of medical problem because of concerns of modesty is really quite stupid. No other word is correct. Stupid and short-sighted. Especially when it comes to children who are entrusted to grown-ups for just about every possible issue related to their well-being.

Victorian era doctors who used to diagnose their patients over their clothes were the real whack-a-doodles. But hey, for decades all the signs have been apparent that people are becoming more prudish by the year.