Habits | Being made to sit on the toil…

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I had a discussion with my wife and she reminded me of the following about her youth: when her mother was about to give her an enema, she would generally ask the girl to try to have a bowel movement — unless the enema was motivated by a complaint of not being able to have a bowel movement: if poop won't pass, straining will just be unpleasant and harmful.

The rationale was that an enema is easier to accept in an empty rectum.

Most often her mom would leave her in the bathroom to do her business, but sometimes, due to lack of time, she would be in the bathroom preparing the enema. My wife recalls mostly sitting on the toilet for nothing at this point, but she recalls the humiliation of having a bowel movement right in front of her mother waiting with the enema bag at least once.

Did this happen to you?

I've heard several members mentioning being given "one last chance" to poop before an enema for constipation, but this was different. If she was "plugged up", her mom would rather tell her not to insist and the enema would make things easier. She recalls being given a first enema, cramping, pooping whatever blocked the passage, then being given a larger enema to clear the rest.

Sean

My mom had a different approach. She'd tell me to go to the bathroom and sit on the toilet and try to go, but not wipe of flush, and then leave and close the door.

In a few minutes she'd come back and check for results. If I'd pood, she'd let me wipe and flush.

If I'd not gone, she'd go to the medicine cupboard, get out an all too familiar box and take out the bulb syringe. It was a red Davol with an ivory washer between the bulb and black rectal tip.

She'd then run warm water in the sink and swish the ivory soap bar in the water for a few seconds, then fill the bulb and set it upright on the sink rim, within about three feet in front of where I was sitting. She'd then leave again and tell me "you have five minutes to try again".

I sat on the seat and tried hard, looking at that filled bulb.

I knew full well if there were no results in the bowl, the bulb would be up my behind within seconds of her retum. That was the usual result. Problem solved.

Pecan nutjob

Sean: Uh oh sounds like this old method of getting confessions by showing the instruments of torture to prisoners!

LisaK

If they have been there 15 minutes and nothing has come out it is better and healthier for them to just try again later.

If, in Two days they have had four sessions on the potty, with at least two taking longer than normal, I would have to look hard at the possibility of getting the bulb out of storage for the first time.

Soapy4me

I do not recall Mom having any of us kids sitting on the toilet before an enema, or a suppository. She seemed to know if we were plugged up, and would simply announce, "I think you need an enema (or suppository), get undressed and meet me in the big bathroom." If a suppository was to be the treatment, then it was just, "meet me in my bedroom, for a suppo." We knew to comply, because experience taught us that the treatment was inevitable. Later in our young lives, we were allowed to decide what treatment we got, and our preference was almost always an enema.

Sean

@Pecan_nutjob

I think my mom's motive was to be sure I was really trying.

Westy

None of us kids ever were made to sit on the toilet for one last chance to go. My mom was of the opinion that even if you didn't really need the enema, it still couldn't hurt to be a little more cleaned out. When she decided to give one of us an enema she would get the bag out of the linen closet, go into the bathroom, make the enema, and call the victim. If you were observant you knew when she went into the linen closet; if not, then you knew what was happening when you got called.