Did anyone get a gown at the pediatrician?

Never a gown as a kid or adult for a physical---(only one time during a barium enema at a hospital but that was not until I was already bare assed)

I never got a gown at the pediatrician. I wore briefs back the. So I always striped to my briefs when I got a physical exam.

Like other posters, I don't remember ever getting a gown at the pediatrician. Usually I just stripped down to my underwear (briefs) for the physical exam.

Never gotten a gown just in my underwear.

I only remember undressing to my tighty whities once. But I never got a gown.

I never had a gown at the pediatrician's office. The doctor I was until age 11 just had me undress as necessary and never had the pants and underpants down. The pediatrician I went to from 11 through 18 had me stripped to underpants and finished up the exam with them down to fully expose penis and scrotum.

From what I remember, there was NEVER a gown. Strip to the tighty whiteys and get on the table.

I don't remember any indication of a gown outside of the hospital until I was an adult.

I distinctly remenber putting on a paper gown from the age of 12 thru 18 when my parents took me. I also recall from about 6 thru 12 just in my tee shirt and panties.

I never got a gown. I always was undressed down to my underwear. Never had an option to put on a gown.

Yeah, I had a gown from maybe 13 or 14 until I stopped going to the pediatrician. Most often had bra on underneath, but for a couple of exams, I was just in panties under the gown.

I never got a gown at the pediatrician. I was always in my panties.

After reading most of the reply's here it seems that there was a different opinion from the MD's standpoint, meaning the girls mostly all got gowns (paper or cloth) and the boys got squat.----I wonder if it still the same now?----any younger members care to respond? Any parents of youngsters can also respond.

After reading most of the reply's here it seems that there was a different opinion from the MD's standpoint, meaning the girls mostly all got gowns (paper or cloth) and the boys got squat.----I wonder if it still the same now?----any younger members care to respond? Any parents of youngsters can also respond.

I saw my pediatrician throughout the 90s and 00s and never undressed to my underwear nor received a gown. Sometimes my pediatrician would have me remove my shirt at some point during the exam while other times I kept it on. I never removed my pants or underwear at the pediatrician; either the doctor or I would lower them for the genital exam and then raise them when done.

I never got a gown at the pediatrician. I always had to be undressed to my tighty whities during the whole exam. Then for the genital exam the doctors would remove the underwear themselves, but only for that part

Proof that there were the years of omnipresent tighty whities.

I got a gown after age 11 or 12 just panties on under it. before that just my panties.

I think age has something to do with the answers. Medical modesty seems to be a more recent invention. For me, growing up male in the 60s around the NYC area, the only awareness of gowns I had was involving being in the hospital - from TV. I don't know about females as I have no recollection of attending my sister's exams or her attending mine. It was always my mom bringing me to the doctor until my physician father took over my heath care.

I think age has something to do with the answers. Medical modesty seems to be a more recent invention. For me, growing up male in the 60s around the NYC area, the only awareness of gowns I had was involving being in the hospital - from TV. . . .

I agree. I don't ever remember a gown. And I remember that when I was working in the operating room in the early 1960s, many patients in the wards wore their own pajamas, or for women, nightgowns. One of my college classmates was in for a minor procedure and I still remember her in a blue translucent nightgown.

It seems like nowadays the modesty is more preserved. Back when I was that age, the old female doctor always gave me an exam in my birthday suit. Even when I went there for a cold I ended up stripped. I never got a gown. This seems to not happen anymore. I wrestled in school, so I was very fit. She may have taken advantage of the situation, or maybe she was old school. I never thought what she did was inappropriate, as she was very caring and thorough. It is a shame that such caring and through doctor is very hard to find nowadays.

My question is, what exactly changed? Are doctors more careful now against lawsuit happy parents? Are people more prude nowadays?

My question is, what exactly changed? Are doctors more careful now against lawsuit happy parents? Are people more prude nowadays?

Yes and yes.

And the lawsuits follow from people being more prudish.

I didn't get a gown. I was in panties with you bra. The doctor didn't wear gloves while examining my vagina either.

In czech republic is not common to get a gown at doctors, so i never wore one, at pediatrics i stripped down to my underwear for most of the exam, then for genital exam the doctor only put her hand in to my boxers (she did not lowered them or sth.) and she never wore a gloves for the exam

I went to our family Pediatrician until I went to college. No gowns ever!!! Just dropped pants for hernia exam.

No. Never offered a gown, or anything at all as a kid / teen in the UK (1960s). You had to strip down to vest and pants for basic things (height / weight / ears / eyes / throat etc.)Then just your pants for chest / abdomen / BP / reflexes etc. Finally, totally naked for hernia check and examination of testes / scrotum / anus / penis ( this was always the procedure for annual school medicals).

I also had regular physiotherapy (1960 - 1964). For many sessions I was required to be naked, at other times I was allowed to wear just underpants or PT shorts. Just the way things were for young boys in the 1960s I guess.

I was always naked since the beginning.

During the 60s and 70s at the pediatrician I was stripped to my white Fruit of the Looms. The genital xam usually took place with me on n my back on th the table with my briefs pulled down.

It was always down to my underwear No gown until I went to the adult intern.

Growing up in the 70s, never a gown, tighty whities for full physical.

I did have to get a series of x-rays of my abdomen at 9 years old, and they gave me a gown but the nurse said "your lucky you're wearing briefs because if you were wearing boxers the metal snap would interfere with the x-rays you would have to remove them" (they had a metal fly snap in those days, but I've always only worn briefs, too this day.

I remember sitting in the room wearing just my white briefs for "check-ups" when I was a kid. I started feeling uncomfortable sometime around that 9-10-11 age range when my mom was still in the room with me.

I can't remember exactly when it happened, but when I was around 13 or 14 my mom started waiting out in the hallway while I was being examined by the doctor.

I never got a gown at my pediatrician. And I saw one till I was 18. And I know for sure my sisters didn't either. It was just down to your underwear.