Tracking bowel movements

Flash forward to today, and this is the rule in our house for me: 3 or 4 days without pooping and @liquidsky has me in the knee-chest or Sims’ position on our bed, giving me a warm, very large and very soapy enema, whether I want it or not. (And I always want it!😉)

@Iris1858 your partner is right to keep a close eye on your health. He's a precious man !

For me, if there has been no movement during the day, in the evening it is a glycerin suppository.

No schedule was kept but seemed to know when it had been too long and an enema was necessary.

Every night when I was being tucked in my mom or grandmother would ask if I’d had a BM that day and if I seemed to be fibbing, they’d ask me when. Third day with a “no” answer and it was enema time.

Having encopresis as a boy meant my mom was always wondering when I went last. She kept track even knowing how much I went when I soiled my underwear. She would get to the point where she said Eric honey I think we need to help you in going to the bathroom. Help meant having something stuck up my butt to make me go poop. It was always a huge battle and lots of fussing and crying and yelling.

No tracking needed ,I am heavily medicated so my cooperation with SBM is flawless and requires nothing from me other than wear a good diaper because once the medication is on board you will not be in control,you will have no choice and not know until you've already messed .

Growing up my mom did not keep obvious track, but just sort of knew. Maybe I had been moody or lethargic but eventually the question came out about whether I had been to the bathroom lately. If the answer was not in the last 3 or 4 days I knew it was soon to be enema time. That always seemed to cure everything.

@Emom i remember those days and how my mother just knew. I had to take some medicine for being anemic and it caused constipation. An enema lovingly given by her with a bulb syringe filled multiple times from a sink full of a solution of warm water and ivory soap always worked its wonders and the feeling of that urge to expell and the resultant gush and cleaning out that of that hard waste always made me feel better. Though I stopped getting enemas from her around age six… they left an indelible imprint. By age 11 I began self administered enemas and play. I was hooked!

When the sigmoid and rectum is loaded with stool, substantial amounts of gas form. Most boys will release flatulence somewhat indiscriminately with their focus mainly on being surreptitious.

One does not tend to notice the odor of their own flatulence as readily as others. So if a child released gas, they thought they were being discreet but Mom's sensitive nose picked up on her progeny's biological byproduct. That detection often was the stimulus for Mom to ask about your bowel activity and a cavalier response almost invariably resulted in an encounter with considerately warm water in her red bag.

@Victoria1951 Serves the sneaky gassy little bastards right! I hope their Mom gave them an extra large soapy enema for their cheek!

@Victoria1951: Most boys will release flatulence somewhat indiscriminately with their focus mainly on being surreptitious.

My younger brother was notorious for what we would call "silent but deadly" releases and occasionally got an enema from mom as a result.

Once I was out of diapers, I was an unquantified child in this regard. If I complained of a stomachache I might have been asked when my last BM was, but I was the kind of kid who tended to hide physical ailments unless they were too obvious or severe.