To expect to accompany daughter to x-ray?

[secretfreckle]

Yesterday my daughter (13) had a routine x-ray at a small hospital near where we live. She has been getting leg pain and we were referred to a children's physio who said she should have an x-ray of her pelvis before he starts any treatment, just to make sure everything is OK.
When we were called through, I stood up to go with her and the nurse said "oh, she's just getting gowned up, you can stay there".
My daughter came out about 15 mins later and had had the x-ray. They had even showed her the x-ray, as my daughter said one side of her hip looked a lot different to the other and had asked her to take her pants off, as some weird shapes were showing up and the radiographer thought she had 'bling' on her pants that was showing up on the x-ray!
Of course now I am worried about the weird shapes and if I had been there, could have seen it for myself and asked questions. I appreciate I would not have been allowed in the actual room itself because of the radiation. Can anyone shed any light on this?! (Just to make it clear, I am not suggesting that anything untoward took place, just wondering why I was not allowed to go with her)

Next time OP if you really want to accompany her, you can. You will stand in the side room where the staff stand, where there is no measurable radiation dose. So if they say you can't because of radiation, that is a lie. The real reason is the pregnancy question, as others have mentioned, also because the room is quite small and extra people get in the way. It's also because kids are often better behaved by themselves. When mum is there they often start crying and putting on a little show of how sick they are, by themselves they are fine (sorry that sounds horrible but I mean it in the nicest way possible - they are just kids so obviously I understand).

I'm a radiographer and although I prefer people coming alone I don't mind if parents accompany. Daily I have adult children (25+ years) accompanied by parents, and partners and friends coming in with each other.