To take my toddler to the doctors in his pjs?

[FuckyDuzz]

My 2 year old is unwell so I took him to the doctors this morning

He was sat in his pram in his pyjamas with fluffy bed socks on, a hoody, a hat and a blanket and was dosing in and out of sleep
After I’d checked in and sat down the receptionist came over and asked me if he was wearing pyjamas, I said yes, so she pointed to a sign on the wall saying ‘no pyjamas’ and told me he couldn’t wear them in the surgery
I said ‘he’s a baby in a pram, surely that sign is talking about adults that come in in their dressing gown and slippers?!’
She just repeated ‘no pyjamas sorry’ I told her I wasn’t leaving if that’s what she was saying and I didn’t
A guy behind me leant over afterwards and said ‘good on you love he’s a bloody baby who cares what he’s wearing’

WIBU to take him in his pyjamas?
I know rules are rules but he’s a poorly baby for goodness sake - what about all the younger babies who wear sleepsuits all day, should she ask them to leave too?!

I kind of want to complain to the practise manager but I am prepared to accept that I’m being U so need to check first

You all obviously live in nicer areas than me, in the Asda in one direction people regularly shop in their pyjamas, dressing gown and with rollers in their hair ... I go to the Morrison’s in the other direction instead

FuckyDuzz

So when do they deem it necessary to actually get dressed if it’s not when they go out?!

I have taken my 3-year-old to the drs in PJs and in a buggy. Why distress a sick child more by getting them dressed when they are poorly and they just want to lie down. We went straight from the GP to the hospital in PJs as he was dehydrated and obviously lethargic. I can't even imagine how someone can look at a sick child like him and complain about PJs

I have no idea Marzipan - when they go to the pub maybe?
I often wonder if they change their underwear and then put their pyjamas back on or if they’re dirty knickers too

Why would pyjamas be banned? I don’t understand!

Are pyjamas a public health risk?

That's utterly ridiculous. I would have stripped him off down to his nappy and she what she thought of that.

When I was pregnant and I'm severe pain and could hardly stand I went to drs in my pjs (clean ones)
The dr refused to let me leave and called an ambulance because of suspected appendicitis. But I wouldn't force my 1 year old (non walking) to get dressed if really ill and other then the time above I've never been down in my pjs xx

I also hadn’t thought about whether the sign was enforceable (of course it isn’t) and the legalities of it all - I will add that to my e-mail
I may try to get the signs removed altogether actually

Well I hope all the male patients were wearing collar and tie and that you were in full make up and wearing heels. After all there are standards to be maintained,

bIG GRIN (Dont know how to add one)

Not quite the same, but I went into a stationary shop last week. DS was in the buggy and had just finished a banana, no bin in sight, so i wipes his hands, put the peel and wet wipe in the cup holder on the back of the buggy- totally contained, and in no way able to touch anything.

I was pounced on by a shop worker who told me “no eating in the shop!” I told her nobody was eating. She said “but he WAS eating”. “Yes I said, outside the shop”. Woman insisted that the peel held in the cup holder fell under the category of “eating in the shop” and that I had to leave immediately.

I did- but I was pretty . Some people are just dicks.

Wiped not wipes

I have an almost 24 year old who wears almost nothing but pj bottoms. They are comfortable for him. He has an ASC and finds other trousers too irritating. The doctors surgery sound like a bunch of judgemental knobs!

I went to the GPs in pyjamas once and got some very disapproving looks from the elderly ladies. I felt like giving them two fingers as I was taken out to an ambulance.
Like everyone else here I think you should definitely complain to the practise manager as it's a ridiculous and potentially dangerous rule.

PS. That doesn't mean he goes round naked on the top, he does wear tops!

I suspect the purpose of the sign may be to avoid people turning up in inappropriate pj’s. Negligee’s, pants with willy holes with willies poking out, no dressing gowns etc. You would think appropriate pj use in public when sick is obvious but there’s always the absolute dicks who ruin it for everyone else. Of course you could argue that people can abuse street clothes in the same manner but I’m guessing the surgery is just trying to minimise the potential for inappropriate dress.

Irrespective none of that is applicable to a baby, toddler or younger child clothed in pj’s so definitely provide ‘constructive feedback’ to the practice manager.

TheSheep wtf?!
Some people just really are massive jobsworths 🙄

YANBU. Hope LO is feeling better soon, which is what's important here x

Thankyou hidden

Take it up with the practice manager.

Is she seriously saying that if a six month old came in wearing a babygro she'd turn him or her away?

Because my DS wore sleepsuits all the time. So where's the difference with a poorly 2 year old. If they were school age I'd understand it but if they can fit in a pram I don't see the problem.

My GP also has a no pj's sign which i sort of understand as a lot of people round my way just cba to get dressed. However as previous posters have said an elderly person may be too fragile etc.
Perhaps a sign requesting acceptable clothing would be better, and of course the receptionist using some common sense !

No you are not being unreasonable! That's such a stupid rule!! Especially for children! I'm a grown woman and I have been to the doctors with my pyjama top on under my coat (I put jeans on for my outing but took them off the minute I got home) when you are sick you do anything to be comfortable. I can't believe that she would say that about a 2 year old in a pram. Stupid woman. I would complain!

Wow, I've seen one woman nip to co-op a few doors down from her flat in PJ's and dressing gown but never seen people actually in a large supermarket in full on PJ's with rollers in her hair.

As for OP of course YANBU. My two both wore nothing but sleep suits until about 1 and probably a bit later. I might well have taken one of them to the Dr's in their PJ's (can't remember) when they were really poorly and would still do so now if needs must (eldest is almost 7).

glad you stood up to her. How is your son?

I watched two girls walk around a market - outside, in thick woolly robes, Pjs, uggs. I think they had dressed purposely like that. Weird

YANBU. What a miserable (and ridiculous) battleaxe. I would complain to the practice manager.
I understand the surgery not wanting adults to rock up in their PJs (though sometimes this may be acceptable). I wouldn't wrangle a sick child into clothes never mind a baby.

I'd have complained to the GP there and then, how ridiculous. As if it matters what a baby is wearing.