Did anyone get a gown at the pediatrician?

Never. It was always strip down to underpants.

I've only been given a gown for my vasectomy, my two colonoscopies and at one dermatologist I saw a number of years ago.

Never had a gown for a physical : always just in underwear or naked.

Actually to my knowledge , down here, gowns are only used when you are hospitalized for a longer time.

At the pediatrician I remember going to (I think I had a different one when I was too young to remember) - I always was given a gown. I always remember laughing at how goofy it was to try to tie the back, and keep my ass from hanging out catching a breeze haha.

Doctor would open up if needed, but it was mostly gown on, stayed on.

There was a pic in a the local newspaper this weekend about a ped who was retiring after many years. The story was accompanied by a photo of a patient and her mom. The caption said the kid was 10months old and was pictured in a gown!

Yes I received a gown at the pediatrician. It’s the only place I recall getting a gown. My doctor does not do very thorough exams anymore. Actually it’s an NP now.

Never had one when I went and if they had them i feel why wear them they show everything anyways.

I was actually offered a gown one time by the nurse, while visiting the pediatrician for a yearly physical around age fourteen or fifteen. After I'd followed the nurse down the hallway into an exam room, stripped to my whitest, tightest, newest briefs, she performed a weight, blood pressure and temperature check, then went to a base cabinet and opened the top drawer, removing a neatly folded cloth gown. She told me I could wear it if I wanted, smiled, then headed to the door and left the room, closing it behind herself. She'd placed the gown on the end of the exam table, as I was sitting on the side in my undies and staring at it, waiting for doctor Seuss to make his grand appearance. After maybe a minute and having nothing better to do, I slid down off the table and put it on... then almost immediately felt like a fool. The primary color of the cloth material was a lovely shade of light blue, with numerous white and yellow daisy flowers printed all over it. It was open back with short strings to close it, which I tried to tie but had a difficult time reaching behind myself to do so, and then gave up. Besides the fact that I already knew I'd be bare butt nude by the end of the physical, so why even bother. Took it off and neatly folded it, setting it on the countertop above the base cabinet where it had been removed, then sat on the side of the table again and waited. That's my one and only time.

I never had a gown at the pediatrician's office, i was just in underwear until the doctor asked me to remove them.

Never at the pediatrician. Always just my white briefs back in those days. I didn't get offered a gown until I was in my mid-twenties.

Yes the doctor would have me wear a gown for my exams at the pediatricians when I was very young.

I went to the pediatrician in the late 70's and early 80 and my brother and I (our exams were usually together) never received gowns, sheets or paper cover up. Back then the assumption was that if you were going to the pediatrician for a checkup then you were going to be removing almost all your clothing,except for your underpants. Even then I was a little mystified. Why strip us to nearly complete nakedness when every inch of your body was going to be examined? The underwear provided a sense of anticipation but it IMHO did not seem strictly needed. I heard that girls got gowns back then but the notion was that if you were a teenage male then modesty was less of a concern. You were allowed to keep your briefs on as a fig leaf

I was never given a gown until recently in my 30s.

Never had a gown, was always naked.

Never, underpants at most.

Not sure with any other UK based members, but I was examined by the family GP the same as everyone in my family. I was always told to strip down to my waist leaving only my pants and if anything else was requiring examination lower down I exposed that area to. Dont think my doctor would have known what a gown was.

Back in the 80’s, I was always in a gown at the doctors office. Always in my tighty whitys until I no longer went to a pediatrician for annual physicals.

I have never been given a gown at the doctors.

The doctor has always told me not what I have to remove, but what I have to end up wearing. I am not normally asked to remove my bra or my knickers in the middle of an exam although it has happened or the doctor would sometimes remove my underwear himself,. Normally I am told to strip to my knickers or go naked from the start.

Visits to the paediatrician were in pants and at the end of the examination the paediatrician went down to check the genitals! For my wife, it was the same, she had to put on her panties and also at the end of the examination, lying on the table, the paediatrician pulled down her panties under her knees to examine her vulva externally.

I grew up before gowns were common so I don’t recall ever being given a gown at the 2 pediatricians I had even at 19 or 20 for my last annual physical with her. The only time I remember gowns was as an inpatient you had to wear one and then around my mid 20s some drs offices started offering them. Even now if they give me a choice I don’t bother because it will be removed or moved out of the way anyways.

Yes, but it wasn’t all the time…it depended on which nurse I got. One always offered me a gown while the others did not.

No. Not at the pediatrician as a kid or the family doctor through teens in to my early 20s. This would have been 1950-1966. Always it was simply “take off everything but your underpants and sit on this chair (or sometimes the table) while you wait for the doctor.” In fact I don’t remember being offered a gown until we’ll into the 1990s or if there was some special procedure like a scope or barium enema involved. My doctors after age 8 were male and nudity among males was no big deal in those day, swimming at the Y or high school gym class for example.

I don’t think I ever got a gown at the doctor when I was younger. It always seemed like they didn‘t care about modesty for kids.

I totally agree with you @BlakeSteven95, but then at that age you are innocent, I think it is such a shame that so many people then become shy and inhibited. You only have to watch people in the changing room or on the beach.

@SouthernAnn I would agree, a lot of people seem pretty shy in our world, yet we all have the same body parts.

Not sure with any other UK based members, but I was examined by the family GP the same as everyone in my family.

I'm from Scotland and just went to my family GP. If they just wanted to listen to my chest I would takey shirt off and if they wanted to do a more detailed exam I would strip down to my underpants.

I totally agree with you @BlakeSteven95, but then at that age you are innocent, I think it is such a shame that so many people then become shy and inhibited. You only have to watch people in the changing room or on the beach.

I seem to think that nowadays, most people start out as shy, certainly beginning in their adolescence and then into their younger years, 20s and 30s.

Then when we get older, say 60s and so, I think we all become far less shy. That is something of a shame as by our 60s and older, our bodies aren't really that much to look at aesthetically. That is when you'd normally think people get shyer as their body deteriorates. But it seems the opposite.

All of which is a lot of wasted opportunities. Better to be happy with your naked body and flaunt it in your 20s and 30s than later in life, when you won't be impressing anyone anymore and probably doing everyone a favor by remaining clothed as much as possible … 😃

I never got a gown, it was always undressing and then being in our underwear or nude, I don't think gowns are a thing where I live, I have rarely seen one in a doctor's office

I never got a gown, it was always undressing and then being in our underwear or nude, I don't think gowns are a thing where I live, I have rarely seen one in a doctor's office

If you don't mind sharing at least the vague geographical area, I'd be interested in knowing where that is. I know this was the norm for a huge part of everyone in Europe for a long time, but that it's changing now.

And I know I've harped on it a ton, but wearing anything at all during any part of an exam is just so silly.

In the UK i have not come across any gowns for having a pediatric exam, my mum just used to undress me to my knix ready for the doctor as i do now same for my own 2. Though before we go to see the doctor regardless if its a routine medical or going for a chesty cough etc I always dress them in something loose or easy to take off just in case the doctor needs to examine them.

Typically I’d just be told to strip to my under and would be examined in my boxers for most of the physical. I think things become less invasive as you age though, as I’ve grown I’ve been allowed to stay at least somewhat more clothed. Still no exam gown, but I don’t think I’d prefer it to what’s been the norm if I’d have to undress completely to put it on.