Did anyone get a gown at the pediatrician?

Never. Typically my attire was tighty whities and a t shirt.

When I would go for an exam with a pediatrician, I was never given a gown to wear. I was either told to strip down to my white briefs or told to remove all of my clothes and wait for the doctor to come into the room. The nurse usually would first take my temperature with a rectal thermometer. I liked the feeling of her holding it in my anus with one hand and having her other hand on my bare bottom.

While I know that I had a pediatrician, I don’t have any memories of those exams. Wish I had a more entertaining answer for you, haha.

While I know that I had a pediatrician, I don’t have any memories of those exams. Wish I had a more entertaining answer for you, haha.

Sounds like something where you could write about your fantasies instead, in some other thread 😉

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.

I grew up in Central Europe

I was always asked to take everything off but my boxers by the nurse…I then waited on the table in them for the doctor to come in which was very embarrassing during teenage years. Now since going to adult doctor last few years the nurse brings me to the room fully clothed…the doctor comes in and asks me some questions then asks me to undress to my boxers to start the exam while he watches

I was Never given a gown until I was In my 20’s. Prior to that I was Either in my underwear or given a sheet to wrap around my waist with underwear removed.

For me my doctor would tell me to strip to my underwear, but i’d leave my shirt and socks on. Gradually as the exam continued he would take off my shirt, socks then underwear. At year 16 I did this again but my pediatrician told me at the start to specifically remove my shirt and socks so I did. I always sat there on the table and when he came in he asked the usual stuff. But this time he said that it was good I stripped to just my underwear since it makes the exam go quicker; I just replied that it was usually cold in the room to which he said “sorry about that but it’s only for a few minutes” which it was but i enjoyed the stripping. So no never got a gown always in my underwear then stripped nude completely at the end

Never. I was stripped to my briefs from as far back as I can remember. This lasted from about four to eighteen.

I actually did get a gown at the pediatrician one year when I was around 14 or so. One of my parents would come to the room for the vitals with the nurse, and then the initial interview with the doctor, but leave for the exam itself. When the nurse gave me the instruction to undress to my underwear, I think she assumed they weren’t going to leave, so she pulled out a paper gown for me to wait for the doctor in. It was my first time getting one, and the doctor just had me take it off even before we started the exam. After that, I didn’t get one until my mid-20s.

Had to take all my clothes off. No gown. I remember asking my mom before I took everything off. She was always in the room.

@joe92 What questions were asked during the interview with the doctor while your parent was present?

No, never, gowns are generally not really used here in germany at all

Never once got a gown in 18 years of going to a pediatrician.

Always stripped down to just my briefs or boxer shorts.

For a physical exam those eventually came off.

Even my first adult exams (going to my dad's doctor) were done without a gown.

I did not get a gown. I did get a paper sheet thing (think like the drape at the gyn).

“It looks like you are here for a physical. I need everything off but your underpants. That includes your bra and socks. You can use this to cover up”. Crinkle crinkle.

The doctor would move it around to see whatever she was checking. This still left me hyper aware of how exposed I was.

I don’t think I got a gown until my late teens, but even then, I had to take it off during the breast exam and it remained off the rest of the exam. Very embarrassing for a teen girl to have her budding breasts exposed with legs spread wide as the doctor inspects her labia and clitoris

I never saw a gown as a kid when at the doctors. Striping down to briefs before the doctor arrived was the norm. Whether briefs came down or off during the exam depended on purpose of the visit. But it seemed that if my briefs were removed I'd be getting a shot.

I usually did get a gown at the pediatrician. As soon as the nurse opened the cabinet and pulled out the patterned blue gown, I knew that I would be fully examined that day. I would be told to take everything off except for my underwear and to put on the gown with the opening in the back. It would always be hard to tie in the back. The feel of the gown on my skin was almost more stimulating and embarrassing than just sitting there in my briefs alone. I would sit on the edge of the table with the crinkly exam paper underneath me. I would be very nervous, knowing that soon, I would be asked to lay down. The gown would be lifted up, and my briefs would be brought down so that my privates could be examined.

No gown is permitted for me. The nurse prepared the patient removing all cloths including pants and socks. I remember very humiliating to stay completely naked in front of her being weighed or simply waiting for the doctor. A few times the doctor let me keep my pants during the initial part of the examination but at last he removed them for the genital part.

After age 12 I got a paper gown with my panties on under it. Before that it was just panties.

I never had a gown at the pediatrician. I wore only my panties at my exams.

I never had a gown at the pediatrician. I wore only my panties at my exams.

Same here, they are not used were I'm from. Especially as I got older it started to bother me, but my mom always said with a smile; "you have nothing she hasn't seen a million times" ... well, at that point, with me sitting on the exam table just wearing panties, it was very little comfort.

Same here, they are not used were I'm from. Especially as I got older it started to bother me, but my mom always said with a smile; "you have nothing she hasn't seen a million times" ... it was very little comfort.

Sounds like my mom. May have seen it million times before but not seen my boobs and genitals a million times

Especially as I got older it started to bother me, but my mom always said with a smile; "you have nothing she hasn't seen a million times"

That was pretty much my mother’s attitude, too. It was little consolation, especially when I was the oldest kid in the waiting room by at least ten years.

How old were you when you stopped having to undress to your panties Annika?

A gown no, physicals were like most nurse took vitals told me to take it all off or I could leave my underwear on if I wanted and was given a sheet to cover with. Physicals I always opted to take my underwear off when it was time. Then I also had genital exams because of slow development, that was strip from the waist down and given a sheet to cover with that usually lasted all of 2 mins after the doctor entered the room.

That was pretty much my mother’s attitude, too. It was little consolation, especially when I was the oldest kid in the waiting room by at least ten years.

When I went into the doctors with my mam and big brother when I was 12, it was the same for me when I protested, that she wouldn't see anything she wouldn't have seen before. Which was right in a way, I used to lounge around the house in the morning in my boxers to go to breakfast before I had a shower and got dressed, and my brother was the same.

But I somehow felt more self conscious at the docs being there in my boxers being examined, getting on the scales and getting my weight read out, sitting on the bed taking deep breaths in and out, being poked and prodded all over etc. It wasn't even as though I had my genitals examined there, it only happened at school.

Usually just in my panties. She would lower them to my ankles when it was time to check my privates.

Nope, didn't even know what they were or even existed. Got my first gown at the hospital, when I was nine. Hated them for three major reasons then...

1. They look like a girl's dress... There was no way this manly boy was going to wear a dress, ends up in one anyways. 😤😮‍💨😡

2. Too big, I hated it... They never had the right size... kept getting in the way all the time.😡😤😮‍💨😓

3. Being nude under them. 😓😊

I had my visit with the cardiologist last week. That's an annual thing due to the CABGx6 I had 27 years ago. At the bottom of the release papers it says "book your next appointment at your pediatrician's office"

HUH?

I'm 83, I never went to one in my life. I don't even think there was one in my town when I was young enough. I hope she gives me a gown so she doesn't get sick looking at me.

Never as a kid.

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