Today I interview Dr. Kumkum Sarkar Patel on gut motility in functional gut disorders, what normal motility is, and how and why this changes in pregnancy. Dr. Patel explains: what gut motility is what the timing for normal motility is types of tests to diagnose motility disorders & dysfunction reasons why gut motility changes self management of gut motility issues and why a diagnosis is so important why do disturbances in motility occur IBS and other functional gut disorders how does pregnancy influence motility in the gut common gut symptoms in pregnancy what to do during and after pregnancy to manage digestive symptoms the overlap between pregnancy and an IBS diagnosis You can follow Dr. Patel on Instagram @dr.gut_motility