Is it inappropriate to take a child to cervical screening?

[BambooTwo]

I am due my smear test. It's tomorrow. My childcare has cancelled on me. Is it wrong if I take my three year old to the appointment?

I've always taken mine with me. Arranging childcare for something that takes 5 minutes isn't worth the hassle!

Where I work we try different things for different ages. Sometimes we will have the child/baby in the main admin office while mum is with doc/nurse or if mum prefers one of us (admin team) will sit in the room outside the curtain and play/chat/draw with the little one.

I took my 3 year old and she just sat on a chair otherwise If the curtain . The nurse kept checking she was ok and commented how good she was .

I've taken DS to a few of mine. He was around 7 last time and wrote about it at school afterwards for a "what did you do in the holidays that you've never done before" kind of tasks! Luckily he'll be old enough to wait at home next time!

My then 6 year old son had to come with me on one. He got up and looked. He then told everyone that he saw the nurse stick a stick up my bum!

A bit younger but I took my one year old and the nurse didn’t say anything. I have no one else to look after him so it was either bring him or not have it done

How absolutely absurd that a smear should be "one of those things you dont take children along to". Women's health is not embarrassing nor shameful nor horrible. Potentially between ages 1 and 2 it would be tricky but otherwise ... no.

I had one with my then 3 year old in a buggy facing the other way behind a curtain. Sometimes needs must.

I breezed in with my two, aged around 4 and 6 at the time. The nurse was properly hesitant and reluctant when she cane out to call me through. I’d not even given it a second thought. Luckily / unluckily the husband of a friend was in the waiting room and he offered to look after them. DD told him I’d gone to have my noonoo checked, which was nice.