How frequently did you receive enemas before age 12?

How frequently did you receive enemas before age 12

It was weekly st lest but when ever need usly twice a week

Got them infrequently from Mom, mostly cool water enemas for fever reduction from the 2 ounce bulb syringe. I think she gave them only when ab-so-lutely necessary.

😜 i remember i was about 8.9 yo and my mother gave me an enema syringe ,not so big,during along a week because the doctor told to do it.In front of my mother i was not so happy for that but inside my mind i was so excited to recive it. 😜

On a weekly routine. No long term illness. My mom had this thing about enemas and a clean bowl. It was mandatory. Everyone got one.

I hated receiving an enema as a child, a fate worse than death. But I survived, and in my teenage years began to love enemas. The whole experience became a turn on, it relaxed me, cleaned me out (which is a good thing), and gave me a nice hard erection when just thinging about taking one.

My mother gave my sister and I enemas only when necessary - which was when we complained about not being able to go to the bathroom. We quickly learned not to say anything! She never forced us or instituted any kind of schedule. I think my sister had a few more than I did though - she wasn't regular, but my mom didn't make these things a family affair. After we entered grade school, once in a great while, if we were under the weather, she'd ask us if we needed an enema. The answer was always an emphatic NO.

My earliest memory is receiving and enema while laying on my back on the changing table legs pulled up and having a small red bulb with a short black nozzle full of soapy water pumped into me....then mom would use those long thin suppositories and work into my anus.. moving it in and out several times to stimulate my colon, she would eventually push it all the way into me, and then repeat the process with a few more suppositories until i had a satisfactory bowel-movement....

i am told that i suffered from 'colic' all i know is it felt wonderful and it did produce the desired results!

Our Doctor prescribed my first enema at about age 7 or 8. It was a two quart bag enema with Ivory Soap.

After I got that one my Mom told my Aunt about it and she told my Mom that she had been giving my two cousins weekly enemas for more than a year and they hadn't missed a day of school since. I got mine every Friday Night lying on my stomach on the bathroom floor on top of the bathmat and a towel, before my bath. Mom continued till I was about 13.

At age 11 I started sneaking my own enemas whenever I could.

Often wondered if my cousins still take enemas too.

I got them "as required" and it certainly was the foundation for my love of them as an adult.

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I got them about once a week or less, pretty much "as needed". Needed, when I held back going to the bathroom... I was told nightly to "go make a poopy" and I only got an enema if I didn't "go" when I was told.

I never received any enemas as a child.

Unfortunately, I only got one enema as a child of 4 or 5, which I have written about elsewhere on this board. But boy did it make an impression on my young mind. I wish my mother had believed in weekly enemas, or enemas until clear. I may not have liked them back then if she gave me that many enemas, but it would have been nice to have had the experience.

Generally two or three a year, with constipation accompanying illness guaranteed to bring out the enema can and bar of Ivory.

I can't really remember how often I recieved them.I don't remember being sick so I don't really know why mom gave them to me. She did use suppositories. The thing I remember most is laying on the bed on my side and mom pulling my underwear off and filling the bulb. I usually had to take a whole bowl of water.

Whenever I went to my aunts for summer vacation my cousins and I would received enemas every Friday night.

As a toddler i got them at least once a week for seveare constipation

Between ages about 3 and 7, received enemas whenever I had been sick for 2 to 3 days. Never minded them then......and still love them today.

Unfortunately I received not one enema in my childhood, so later, I had a lot to catch up on this.

Only as needed, as determined by Mom. Someone else mentioned cousins and I have to wonder how often my closest cousins, three boys, got them. I used to see the bag hanging on the back of the linen closet door in the bathroom when I went to visit which was fairly frequently. The oldest must have had strong feelings about them as well as I recall him taking a hose and can out from under the sink in their Grandmother's bathroom (she lived in the same house with them)and showing it to me. Unfortunately the rest is pretty vague but I know it didn't involve me.

A minimum of weekly; quite often more often than that... initially I hated them ( was started at 4 And A Half!!! ) but actually came to enjoy my time with Mum, it was the only time when I had her truly undivided attention 😁 . From what I've read here, I guess she was very good at administering them, I never suffered (i.e. no pain), just very frustrated at the time away from play. I guess I sort of hoped that my spouse would get into the same mode; oh, well, can't always have what you want, eh? 😁 😁 😁

C.

I received an occasional enema if a dose of laxative given at bedtime didn't make me have to go as soon as I woke up the next morning. My mother would insert a glycerine suppository first to see if that would help the laxative to work, and if that didn't make me go in 20 minutes I would get a soapsuds enema. I also got a daily soapsuds enema whenever I was sick enough to be kept home from school (doctor's orders). In addition I got 2 enemas as part of a "Spring Cleaning" (a thorough purging and worm treatment) that 3 of my cousins and I were given each year during the Easter holidays. Most years from age 4 to 11 that amounted to about a dozen enemas a year, but the year that I turned 12 I got the measles and was given daily enemas for over a week, as well as getting them during several colds and a bout of flu, so that that year I got about 2 dozen enemas, all of which I hated.

I would get an enema whenever I was sick, if I hadn't made a BM for three days, or on those odd occurrences when my mother felt that I was probably just due for a good cleaning out. If I was home sick from school it usually meant an enema at mid morning. Enemas in our house meant at least 1 quart of warm, soapy water that would have to be held until you thought you would explode.

I was getting enemas as early as I can remember in my childhood. Usually with a red rubber bulb syringe with black nozzle. I do not ever remember being in any particular bowel distress when I received these enemas, I just remember being called into the bathroom, draped over my mother's lap and getting an enema. I do not remember ever raising a fuss, I just remember her doing it and me being very cooperative.

As I got older, I remember them being given very specifically for illness, especially colds. My mother was also a firm believer Vicks Vapo Rub. So in later years I strongly associated the smell of Vicks and Ivory soap with getting an enema and still to this day find these odors somewhat erotic, especially when they are combined in a steamy bathroom. The typical routine was that I would go into the bathroom and receive an enema and then get a bath and have Vicks rubbed on my chest then be put to bed.

I have no recollection of ever having been given an enema as a child.

Got them quite routinely as a child.Starting before I can rememeber . They were usually a weekly event, sometime more often. Sometimes a few weeks would go by without getting one. I would start to think maybe I didn't have to worry about being taken and given one, then it would happen and those times would end up being the worste with me receiving a series of them for a few days in a row. It wouldn't take long to remember my place over the lap.

At a used-book sale, I came upon and bought the 1957 edition of Dr. Spock's book on child care. He was not a fan of routine enemas but said one could be given if no BM by the third day of a cold or comunicable disease. My mom acted after the second day of illness related constipation from the 1930s onward. This amounted to two or three visits with the irrigator can annually up to 11 or 12.

Only as necessary, which might have been two or three a year as I recall. The ivory soap suds enema always came after I had been ill for a few days, and the folks just figured what I needed to get well, was a good enema. Hard to say if they helped or not, but it oftened seemed that within a day or two of receiving the enema, I was healthy again. Coincidence, timing, or actuality, I can't say....but they didn't hurt, and I still enjoy them today....mostly for pleasure.

I don't really know how often I received enemas before age 12, but, they were not on a regular schedule. I was born a bit premature at 5 pounds and Mom's doctor said my stomach and intestines were not fully developed. She told me that I had many, many enemas and glycerin suppositories until I began to grow.

The top shelf of the bathroom closet held a red bulb syringe, a quart jar with a spoon and a bar of Ivory soap inside, blue bottles of long infant suppositories and a container of Vaseline. A two quart red bag hung on the closet door frame. All of these were used on me as time went by. I don't remember ever complaining about getting an enema. I enjoyed them from the very first that I can remember.

I got weekly enemas for as long as I can remember. I remember the red open top enema bag, never got from a bulb. Mom gave them to me usually got three in a row one soapy two warm water till I was about 15. I bought my first enema actually it was a red douch bulb when I was about 12. Rode my bike to the other side of town , remember how great it felt the first time I pu that big black douch tip in.