Undressing at the pediatrician

How did you undress for your exam?

Were you fully dressed at beginning, take off as needed and as the exam went on or was it everything off but underwear at the beginning ( in just underwear before the doctor enters the room)

I'm also curious about bras at the pediatrician, What age were you the first time you wore a bra to the doctor’s? Was it a training bra or a regular bra? For most of the exam were you allowed to keep your bra on (if you undressed at the beginning of the exam) Or were you asked to remove your bra with the rest of your clothing and just be in your panties for the entire exam? (I’ve talked with a few women who were examined in just their panties even though they had started wearing bras)

The pediatrician I saw until I was 11 did not have me undress at all. He worked around my clothes and the genital exam was just a blind feel down the front of my pants. He passed away and the new pediatrician that I saw from 11 until 18 had me strip to my underpants before the exam started. He was actually the one who told me to strip ("strip to your underwear") and was in the room while I did it. He gave me my first experience with full exposure of the genitalia for that part of the exam.

Whenever I had to undress, I always did it once the nurse left the room and before the doctor came in, as I was always told by the nurse to undress, not the doctor.

My sister would usually undress and hand her clothes to mom and then me. Down to panties, bras came off. I was 12 when I started wearing a training bra. I had no boobs not even buds but it made me feel better. I was a late bloomer. I was always worried I would not grow.

I was mostly examined completely from head to feet, because I had several health and often abdominal problems. At my paediatrician it was usuable to get completely undressed at the very beginning and for the measurements by the nurses before. When I was 15 and a half until 18 I was allowed to wear my pants until I was brought into the exam room but had to undress them then at once, too.

I would always be down to my boxers before my pediatrician entered the room.

Never went to a pediatrician; just the regular family doctor, but similar state of undress: down to my briefs.

Don't remember doing it myself, but I remember ending up nude getting examined all over. Don't Know who did it or how it Happened.

My sister and I would always undress to our panties for the pediatrician. No bra. Seems to be the common thing for pediatricians around here.

I think that is common although with my two once begin to develop they were given a gown. Certainly wasn't that way growing up myself though.

I have to have yearly skin exams and my doc and assistants are females. I undress to my boxers as the exam proceeds they are pulled down. It doesn't bother me.

I remember at the pediatrician the nurse would tell me to take every thing off except my underwear, then when I became older in my teens she would hand me a gown and ask me to take off everything.

For me it was take off everything except my underwear before the doctor came in. I didn't start wearing a bra until I was 12, so even when I was 11, and started to have a little breast development, I was just in my panties when he came in the room.

Once I was 12, I kept my bra on, but I would have to take it off once he got to examining my chest.

My pediatrician never had me get undressed, either. She just did the hand down the pants, feeling my scrotum and penis.

My pediatrician never had me get undressed, either. She just did the hand down the pants, feeling my scrotum and penis.

Same here. I think a few times I removed my shirt, but pants and underwear stayed on. Either the doctor or I would lower as necessary for the genital exam.

Always down to the tightie - whities, then height, weight, et all ad sit on the table and wait for the doctor.

Always undressed to my underpants before the doctor came in.

The pediatrician I went to until I was 15 would have me undress to my underwear. Once in the exam room, the nurse told me to "strip everything off except your underwear." She always remained in the room as I undressed then would take my vitals. Sometimes, she would have me take off my underwear to get weighed. Then starting around 13, he would take off or pull down my underwear for the genital exam.

Now, it's always the same whenever I go to my doctor. The nurse tells me to "strip down to just you boxers" after she takes my vitals.

Why would a nurse make him remove his underpants to get weight? Does underpants weigh that much? Also I find it confusing that she only did that sometimes and not all the time.

Was the nurse doing that to check the development?

Also I find it confusing that she only did that sometimes and not all the time.

They probably just make up these rules as they go along ... you know, to break up the tedium of the job ... ha ha ha

The reason I said "Sometimes, she would have me take off my underwear to get weighed". My doctor had two nurses, the older nurse's training was that the patient should be weighted naked. After, she was done I could put my underwear back an hop on the exam table. The other nurse tried to give you some "modesty" while your in just underwear. She would let you keep your underwear on while taking the vitals and weight. Another example of the difference between the two was get shots. The older nurse almost always gave injections in your butt. The other mostly in the arm.

It is funny to notice in the message of "Paddlerow" that there could be great differences in the way the examination was performed by a nurse according to her age or her character or habits

May be it was different at a school or sports physical examination where I believe that there were official instructions, so the weigh-ins of boys students might be performed in underwears or stark naked according to the instructions, sometimes it could be mentioned on the medical form that the nurse had to fill

at least I think that it was like that in France

But I presume that "Paddlerow" is talking of physical examinations in a private doctor office

So it was very different according to the age of the nurse, the oldest one required a full nudity for a weigh-in while the youngest one asked only to be in underwear and it was the same for shots ; the oldest one did them always in the butts while the youngest did them always in the arms.

It shows that there were no regulations about the state of undressing of a boy at a weigh-in and the shots, each nurse could do as she preferred or was instructed to do during her studies in a school nurse.

it was not surprising that it was the oldest one who was very"old school" and did not mind about the shyness towards nudity of the boys.

Anyway of course I would have preferred to be examined by the youngest nurse !

Ditto with doctors. Look at all the posts from men remembering their exams when they were boys. Those who were boys in the '60s and '70s would be wearing just their underpants or even naked for the full physical. Gowns for boys weren't commonplace until perhaps the 1990s, from what I can gather by reading these forums.

Paddlerow's experiences were interesting with some similarities to my experiences as a kid and some that were not. He said that he always had to strip to his underwear until he was 15. He doesn't say what happened at age 15 that changed but I can say that nothing changed until I was much older. Any time I went for a physical, I always had to strip to my underpants only. I never had to take my briefs off to get weighed at a physical exam at school or at a clinic. The only times that I was naked was when I wrestled in school and by high school, we weighed in nude or in a jockstrap but usually nude.

The first time that I was in a gown was much, much later and even today that is not usually the situation when I have to undress for an exam. I don't know about boys wearing gowns to get physicals in the 90s as I was no longer a kid by then. I don't know when that change happened, or if it did, as my exams in the 90s were still done in my underwear and no gown. Likewise, I don't know when exams changed from fully nude to wearing underwear. 60s or 70s? I was a kid in the 70s and never had to be completely nude from the beginning for a physical. Like all physicals, we might be naked by the end of it or almost so, but not from the beginning. This probably depended on the age and training of the doctor.

I can understand older military trained doctors who had examined thousands of soldiers over the years carrying that custom into their private medical practices. I don't see anything wrong with that but I can see why doctors might have decided that it wasn't necessary to have every patient nude from the beginning. This would have been male patients only anyway as that never would have happened with females. The nurses took their orders from the doctors and if the doctor had told the nurse that he wanted his patients stripped down, then the nurses followed those orders. The nurses that I remember stayed in the room until I was undressed and usually took my temperature, got my weight and height only after I was undressed. I didn't see a lot of doctors or nurses in private offices so this did not happen every year. I had many exams at school with other kids so seeing a doctor for anything other than being sick was rare.

As for shots in the butt instead of the arm, my guess is that injections in the butt for kids was probably just practical. More muscle back there instead of injecting into a kid's skinny arm plus a kid might move his arm at the last minute and screw up the shot. It was just easier and safer to do shots in the butt. Also some of those shots were penicillin and it was a thick liquid that needed to go into a bigger muscle. Still hurt like heck in the butt and made it hard to sit but better than trying to shoot penicillin into a skinny arm.

It is true that some doctors who had been military doctors before becoming private doctors could have carried their customs about the examination of thousands of recruits stark naked from the beguinning in their private medical practices.

It was the same for the Pe teachers who were sometimes retired from military life as sergents and were so strict and tough with their male students than they had been with the recruits and did not mind about the possible shyness towards nudity of some of the students when it was time to shower or when they were monitoring the students at school physicals. I have known one of them who instructed his high school students who were already undressed until briefs in the locker room as usually to remove their briefs when they were the next to enter in the examination room while it was not a requirement of the female nurse or the female doctor, he thought that the complete nudity would be required like in the army at a school physical from start to end of the examination, a weigh-in might be always perfomed in the nude and so on ..

As regards shots on the butts, there could be medical reasons to proceed like that but I presume that it was also a custom especially with boys whose butts could be exposed without any issues by the opinion of female nurses with the agreement of mothers..

When I went to my female pediatrician for a normal visit when I was sick or had some issue, the nurse would have me take off my shirt and wait on the table. When the doctor came in she would check me sitting up and then have me lay down. She would then unfasten my belt, button, and zipper of my pants herself before she would palpate my stomach. With one hand she'd lift the waistband of my underwear and the other hand would feel around. She's stop at the top of groin with the one hand just inside my underwear. Never see anything, just feel around. Just enough to give me a slight thrill (and nervousness) as a kid. When she was done I would sit up and fasten everything up myself.

The one time I went to her for a sports physical for school, the nurse instructed me to take off everything but my underwear and have a seat. Everything proceeded as usual. Once I laid down the doctor lifted the waistband of my underwear with one hand and started feeling around with the other. Only her other hand didn't stop at the top of my groin, she kept feeling along until she reached the side of my scrotum / top of my leg. Then she repeated it on the other side. My mind was freaking out (both good feelings and bad at the time). Then she pulled her hand out, grabbed hold of my waistband with both hands, and pulled my underwear out and down a bit and just stared. And stared. And stared. I laid there on that table while she stared at my exposed genitals for at least an hour and a half!!! OK, maybe not quite that long, but it felt like it...

First I would undress to my underwear. Then the nurse would take my temperature under my arm. Then I would get on the table awaiting to be examined.

My most vivid memory of undressing was having to pull everything down and bend over the receptionist's lap for injections in my bare bottom (penicillin when I was ill and booster shots when I wasn't).

Up until age 6 I was fully nude during my exam and I didn't care, at that time in my life I had fun being nude. Til age 6 to 8 though I would begin my exam with my clothes and later I would be nude til the end, thats when I started to get a bit self conscious but still didnt mind a whole lot.

I was always told to strip down to underwear, and they stayed on for the entire exam--even the hernia check.