Behaviours that led to enemas

Were there any signs for our enemagivers that we need an enema? I remember that I often did not want poop and for helping myself not to go to bathroom has to seat on a chair or bench and squize my anus as hard as possible. Adults did not allow me to do this. They named it "clamping". Sometimes if I were not caught in clamping they could guess about it by soiled underwear. Usually after finding me clamping they gave me enema. Sometimes enema was given to correct my mood. Do others knew what would led them to enema?

As a child I was just too busy to stop and go to the bathroom. "Voluntary withholding " they called it. Looking back I was lucky that my parents had such a good physician even though he scared me and ordered treatments I hated, including enemas, (and a lot of shots in the bottom). My parents kept a close eye on me when I was a young child and they knew when I had not answered the call of nature for a few days.

My parents were always gentle and never punishing, they just did what the doctor ordered and it worked.