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Subject: Re: Should an 8 year old boy with delays a..... Author: Maude [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2025, 07:03: am In reply to: Reliance 's message, "Re: Should an 8 year old boy with delays a....." on Thursday, October 09, 2025, 12:56: am Reliance, it is really good that your husband is replenishing your bacteria in your colon with the large probiotic enemas. I know they are not pleasant when you are not feeling well. And you said you are new to enemas so that makes it doubly unpleasant. As to your older children having emotional meltdowns when they need their enema your husband is right, they will come to accept them and start to settle down at enema time. His children take their enemas like there is nothing to it because they started very young and don't know life without enemas once or twice a month. Are they getting a clean out once a month or more often, like weekly? I have numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren by now and they very from family to family. Some get weekly clean outs but most get twice monthly clean outs. For several generations now when someone needs an enema in our families it is no more an emotional issue than being asked to brush their teeth or make their bed. It is just something that is expected and accepted. No fuss, no big deal. Your teens can start learning now to give themselves their enemas except for when they are sick and need someone to help them with it. And the teen girls in our families often like to help give the enemas to the younger kids. So when they grow up and have their own children giving enemas is not a big scary deal like it is for you because of your lack of experience with enemas personally. Glad you are feeling better. Set an example for your kids and accept your high colonic enemas so they see that it is not something to fuss about. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Should an 8 year old boy with delays a..... Author: Reliance [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 06:07: am Hi Maude I know the enemas are awful but necessary. I read your past messages about you growing up with enemas for the children in the family. The sit on enema bag with the kid tied arms together and feet dangling so they can't lift up off the enema bag sounds awful too. My husband puts them on their back on our bed with frog legs, bottoms of feet together and knees relaxed and dropped to the side. And he massages the abdomen while they take in the enema. It takes about 15 minutes to slowly take in their enema. He uses a catheter that he inflates so they don't leak. Two of the children have slow transit issues and get an enema every week and all others get a clean out enema every other week to twenty days. No specific schedule just when ever time allows and kid that needs an enema is available. Usually at bedtime but on weekends any time of the day. My three daughters hate the enemas so much. They have no interest in helping give the younger kids their enemas. I also have little interest in giving enemas. Especially after my experience with them. I don't like hurting their feelings making them have the enemas. Even his kids who don't mind their enemas at all I just don't care to give enemas. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Should an 8 year old boy with delays a..... Author: Maude [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Friday, October 17, 2025, 09:11: am Reliance your older daughters hate the enemas because they were introduced to them later in growing up. They will adjust to the routine. It just takes a little time. It has been years since you could buy the JBL enema sit on bags and all of ours have worn out and been thrown away. My grandchildren and great grandchildren who still live at home and receive regular enemas get them while in different positions from family to family. But the preferred position in most of the houses even for some of the teenagers is bent over mom's leg. Especially for the younger children we find that we don't want them to be able to see the enema bag. It just gets them too riled up. We want them to concentrate on their breathing and trying to relax and not gasping for air so the abdomen is calm and can take in the enema. If they can't see how much is left in the bag it is easier to talk them through their enema and control the flow so we can slowly work it up into the far part of the colon. Most of our families don't use inflatable nozzles. Some children have trouble with leaking but we have always prepared for that by having lots of absorbent towels and pads under them. We do have one great grandchild now 7 years old that is a real bad leaker. She really struggles getting her enema in her. She tries but she just leaks really bad. Her mom has bought the cone enema nozzle and when pressed tightly against her anus it does a good job of helping her get her enema taken. I'm pretty excited because I have three great grandchildren here for the weekend, ages 8 10 and 12. I get to clean them out today. I rarely get to give enemas now having no young ones around much. Two boys and the 10 year old is a girl. They are expert enema takers so it will be kind of relaxing for them, that's how they see their enemas at this age having had them for several years now. But it is their first enemas from me for a couple of years now. The oldest boy actually has never had an enema from me. His mom says he is starting to give himself his enemas now but he will get it from me today. I think you need to be on a regular clean out schedule along with the children to show them support with this new part of their lives. It will really help them. Your oldest daughter can help give you your enema and it will help her adjust to accepting if not looking forward to her enemas. So many of the children in our families will ask for their enemas now because they like the one on one mommy attention. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Should an 8 year old boy with delays a..... Author: Reliance [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Monday, December 15, 2025, 01:48: pm Hi everybody, Well we have all settled in to our routines. We have a couple of children who have slow transit colons and have to have weekly enema. The rest of our combined 7 including my 16 18 year old get an enema about every 14 to 20 days. It's not set in concrete we just try to get everybody an enema twice a month. And schedules sometimes get in the way so we can't just schedule them permanently for a given day of the week or month. I still don't like giving enemas. I'm not comfortable using the catheter to inflate in them to hold the fluid in them. I do try to give my girls some of their enemas because they hate enemas and don't like getting them from step dad but they are adjusting slowly and don't have anxiety attacks now when they need their enema they just don't like them. His kids sometimes ask for their enema. They are real troopers. They don't know a time in their past when they didn't get enemas. He started all of his kids at the age of 3 on regular enemas. I had my fair share of enemas again last week. That's what prompted me so see what you all are up to. I learn so much about how it is okay to keep kids cleaned out. I know it is good for their health now that we give them enemas I just don't like doing it and I don't like getting enemas. But I will say last week when I was so sick with a stomach but that the enemas he gave me helped me to sleep so good through the night for three days until I kicked the bug. I'm a believer. I just don't like enemas. And I don't like hurting my girls feelings when I need to give them their enema. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]