Was it standard for Grandmas to give you enemas?

Grandma tried to use a Higginson syringe on me once and I hated the feeling of pumping an enema into me and pooped it back out onto her and the floor! I got a very red spanked bottom for my efforts but all of enemas after we’re 2qt red bag gravity fed hot and soapy!

Never had a grand mother, so no, never got one from them.

I had one grandma who was and still is fiercely anti-enema.

She is in her 90's and seems to be dying, one piece at a time.

The other is dead now but she lived 10 hours drive away, across a national boundary.

Never had an enema from anyone but myself when I started giving them to myself as an adult.

My sister never received enemas because they were not necessary. On the other hand, I suffered from constipation and enemas, as well as proper diet, were necessary. I think my mother, but especially my grandmother, after so many enemas they gave me, in the end they began to enjoy giving me all those enemas.

Received all my early enemas from my mother, with my aunt on just a few occasions. The forty or so since adulthood were also only by women.

Inter-generational households were very common during the Golden Age for one thing. Also, women outlived men, especially if the man was a laborer. Grandmothers were around and usually quite the authority figure, making it easier to be the one to obey when it came too unpleasant things children faced growing up.

One of my second grade school friends lived in fear of his grandmother, who ruled with an iron fist from what I gathered.

It began with her and it was common

I had a number of enemas from my maternal grandmother. Some at her house, mostly at ours. At her place it was usually just the two of us. At home the enema would usually be a joint giving. Both her and mom. She also gave mom enemas too.

@thomas yes it was common to use the bulb in their generation