When my siblings and I were kids, we got a digital recital exam if mom, grandma, or our aunts suspected we were constipated. Mom only took our temperature rectal if she thought we were sick before doing a digital recital exam. If she found one of us constipated, my siblings and I got a soapy then a rinse enema laying across our bed together. Grandma and our teenage aunts were a different story, with them enemas were done mainly one on one in private, but not always. When done in private, we occasionally got our temperatures taken rectally before getting a digital rectal exam. When not in private, it was in grandma's large downstairs bathroom together with both aunts at bath time in the evening. It didn’t matter who gave us an enema, we always got lubricated with a finger covered in Vaseline deep in our anus for fifteen or twenty seconds before it was replaced with an enema nozzle. We prefer our teenage aunts giving us enemas over mom or grandma because one, they got total undressed like we did. Two, they took things slower than mom or grandma, taking longer to do a digital rectal exam before replacing their finger with an enema nozzle. Once the nozzle was in and the flow started, they ran the water slower, allowing us to take more and reducing or eliminating cramps. Three, when the enemas were finished, they put us in the shower with them, rinsing us and themselves off. Especially in the summertime before air conditioning was commonplace. Four, once grandma started delegating responsibility to our teenage aunts, the number of enemas my siblings and I got increased from a couple a month to a couple per week, mainly at bath time in the evenings. My siblings and I didn’t complain, because we liked enemas and grandma knew it. She also knew, our mom hated enemas and her two teenage daughters didn’t. They liked enemas as much as we did, plus they also liked giving us and themselves enemas. It may be a coincidence, but this started the summer mom complained to our RN grandmother that we’d been getting more constipated of late, and would she please watch us and see what she thought during our summer visit that year. The end result was, we got a lot more enemas that summer and in coming years, mainly from our teenage aunts at bath time in the evening.
A few years later as preteens, when our RN grandmother taught us personal hygiene. Rectal temperatures had long since changed to by mouth. She taught us to lubricate our anus inside an out with a Vaseline covered finger before sliding the enema nozzle in place. To do a soapy enema using Ivory soap then a rinse enema using a teaspoon of salt and baking soda per quart of warm water. Afterwards, when we started giving each other enemas after school in the afternoon, we always did a digital recital exam on each other for lubrication before slipping the nozzle in place. Doing both a soapy and rinse enema. When it was warm, we did what our aunts did once the enemas were finished, we got in the shower together to rinse off.